Zera Fink
Zera Silver Fink was an American literary scholar and professor known for his studies on English Renaissance literature and humanism. In the 1940s in his book The Classical Republicans he developed the concept of classical republicanism arguing that Puritan political thought drew inspiration from classical Greece and Rome transmitted through Italian renaissance theories of mixed government and the stability of the Venetian Republic.
Fink argued that Polybius and Niccolò Machiavelli, the latter in his Discourses on Livy, had a great influence on seventeenth-century "classical republicans" such as James Harrington. The "classical republicans", in turn, influenced eighteenth-century proponents of the Commonwealth.
Fink influenced both the political theorist Hannah Arendt as well as J. G. A. Pocock, the historian and author of The Machiavellian Moment.