Machiavelli : a portrait /

"Machiavellian"--Used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless - is never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher S. Celenza's...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Celenza, Christopher S., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527
Machiavelli, Niccolò > 1469-1527
1400-1737
Statesmen > Italy > Florence > Biography.
Hommes d'État > Italie > Florence > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Politics and government
Social conditions
Statesmen
Statsmän.
Politiska förhållanden > historia.
Florence (Italy) > Politics and government > 1421-1737.
Florence (Italy) > Social conditions > 15th century.
Florence (Italy) > Social conditions > 16th century.
Florence (Italie) > Administration > 1421-1737.
Italy > Florence
Italien > Florens.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Renaissance, conspiracies, bonfires: Machiavelli's little-known youth
  • Highs and lows : Machiavelli emerges
  • Interlude : Machiavelli's letter
  • The prince
  • The discourses
  • The comedy of life : letters and plays, wives and lovers
  • History
  • Ghosts.

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