This highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other republicans. An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (notably law, philosophy, history and the history of political thought) explore both the immediate Florentine context in which Machiavelli wrote, and the republican legacy to which he contributed.
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"The collection as a whole provides a synopsis of what is still probably the most powerful tradition in European political thought; and this is the best collection of essays on that topic now available." - Times Literary Supplement
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An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds explores the immediate Florentine context in which Machiavelli wrote, as well as the European republican legacy to which he contributed.
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Florence, wrote Machiavelli in 1519 or 1520 in his Discursus on the reform of the Florentine government, has never been a 'repubblica...che abbi avute le debite qualita sue' - an observation which recapitulates the statement made a few years earlier in his Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio that 'per dugento anni che si ha di vera memoria', Florence had never possessed a 'stato, per il quale la possa veramente essere chiamata republica'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civilis vir, buone armi, civilis disciplina, vivere politico, governo popolare, own individual liberty, governo stretto, governo largo, regimine civitatum, buoni ordini, word stato, word politico, vivere civile, consiglio grande, electoral scrutinies, word politicus, vivere libero, republican experience, civic greatness, second chancellor, chancery officials, delta guerra, republican writers, civil discord, princely rule Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Florence, wrote Machiavelli in 1519 or 1520 in his Discursus on the reform of the Florentine government, has never been a 'repubblica...che abbi avute le debite qualita sue' - an observation which recapitulates the statement made a few years earlier in his Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio that 'per dugento anni che si ha di vera memoria', Florence had never possessed a 'stato, per il quale la possa veramente essere chiamata republica'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civilis vir, buone armi, civilis disciplina, vivere politico, governo popolare, own individual liberty, governo stretto, governo largo, regimine civitatum, buoni ordini, word stato, word politico, vivere civile, consiglio grande, electoral scrutinies, word politicus, vivere libero, republican experience, civic greatness, second chancellor, chancery officials, delta guerra, republican writers, civil discord, princely rule Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Consiglio Maggiore, Pesman Cooper, Piero Soderini, Quentin Skinner, Pier Soderini, Paradise Lost, Biagio Buonaccorsi, Leonardo Bruni, Cesare Borgia, Francesco Guicciardini, Complete Prose Works, Renaissance Florence, Francesco Vettori, Algernon Sidney, Columbia Milton, Devonshire Jones, Giovanni da Viterbo, Bellum Catilinae, Gisela Bock, Great Council, Niccola Machiavelli, New York, Social Contract, Alamanno Salviati, Coluccio Salutati New!
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