ABSTRACT
Caldiera's most clearly stated references to Venetian politics and society are found in his three moral philosophical works. Separately titled, and heretofore considered unrelated, these works are neverthe less designed as a related and coherent system of moral philosophical science.15 By defining the structure of the Bodleian trilogy, the primacy given to political existence in Caldiera's thought can be demonstrated and a logical pattern for the subsequent analysis of his social and political ideas obtained. Moral, economic, and political science, therefore, the three branches of moral philosophy, and the three modes of the existence of man— solitary, domestic, and civil—constitute the three subjects investigated in Caldiera's Oxford trilogy. Their relationship is necessary and their order deliberate. These three sciences, however, represent more than a set of structural or epistemological categories; they also constitute a hierarchy of values.
