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Machiavelli's Three Romes : Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed
Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Texts Cited
- Introduction
- Part I: Christian Rome
- Introduction
- 1. The Church and Machiavelli's Depiction of Italy's Historical Situation
- 2. The Ravages of Christianity
- Part II: Pagan Rome
- Introduction
- 3. The Foundation for Tyranny in Rome
- 4. Corruption, Youth, and Foreign Influences
- 5. Machiavelli's Ambiguous Praise of Paganism
- Part III: Machiavelli's New Rome
- Introduction
- 6. Old Lands and Machiavelli's New One
- 7. A Temporal Christianity and the Princes of the Republic
- 8. Machiavelli's Rule and Human Liberty
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index