Umfang:
xi, 192 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781107125506
Inhalt:
Introduction -- Another republicanism -- Italy after the inundation -- The questionable virtues of the Medici -- Republican virtue, reconsidered -- Conclusion
Inhalt:
"What do modern republics have to fear? Machiavelli's Florentine Republics reconstructs Machiavelli's answer to this question from the perspective of the Florentine Histories, his most probing meditation on the fate of republican politics in the modern age. It argues that his principle goal in narrating the defeat of Florentine republicanism is to debunk the views of leading humanists concerning the overall health of republican politics in modernity and the distinctive challenges that modern republics should expect to face. The Medici family had exposed these vulnerabilities better than anyone else, and Machiavelli reconstructs their political strategy to show how conventional ideas of moral and political virtue are the most potent instruments of princely ambition in a city that wants to be free"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781316410776
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Clarke, Michelle T. Machiavelli's Florentine republic Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781316410776
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Machiavelli, Niccolò 1469-1527
;
Florenz
;
Republik
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/9781316410776
