Guicciardini advocated retreat into private interest as refuge from public life

Evidence

The Italian word here is “parliculare ”, a term used by Guicciardini, who suggested that the best refuge from the trials of public life was one’s own “particulare ” or private interest. De Sanctis criticised this “egoism”. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2217

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines the Guicciardinian concept of ‘particulare’ as retreat to private interest against public life.