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The Machiavellian moment : Florentine political thought and the Atlantic Republican tradition / J.G.A. Pocock, Richard Whatmore.
LIBRA JC143.M4 P6 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924-2023, author.
- Series:
- Princeton classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Italy--History.
- Political science.
- Italy.
- History.
- Political science--Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Political science--United States--History.
- United States.
- Political and social views.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 634 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Princeton Classics Edition; Introduction; PART ONE. Particularity and Time The Conceptual Background; I The Problem and Its Modes A) Experience, Usage and Prudence; II The Problem and Its Modes B) Providence, Fortune and Virtue; III The Problem and Its Modes C) The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile; PART TWO. The Republic and its Fortune Florentine Political Thought from 1494 to 1530; IV From Bruni to Savonarola Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse; V The Medicean Restoration A) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516
- VI The Medicean Restoration B) Machiavelli's II PrincipeVII Rome and Venice A) Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra; VIII Rome and Venice B) Guicciardini's Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence; IX Giannotti and Contarini Venice as Concept and as Myth; PART THREE. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic; X The Problem of English Machiavellism Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War; XI The Anglicization of the Republic A) Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen; XII The Anglicization of the Republic B) Court, Country and Standing Army
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-600) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles J. Stille Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0691172234
- 9780691172231
- OCLC:
- 942707392
- Publisher Number:
- 99969044343
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