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A great and wretched city : promise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought /

Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and r...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jurdjevic, Mark (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Collection:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the Florentine question
  • The Savonarolan lens
  • Roman doubts
  • Nobles and noble culture in the Florentine histories
  • A new view of the people
  • The Albizzi regime in the Florentine histories
  • The virtues and vices of Medici power in the Florentine histories
  • The failure of Florentine institutions
  • Conclusion : Machiavelli's republican realism.