Machiavelli's Florentine republic / Michelle T. Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Michelle T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Istorie fiorentine.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Istorie fiorentine (Machiavelli, Niccolò).

Republicanism.

History.

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--1421-1737.

Florence (Italy).

Republicanism--Italy--Florence--History--16th century.

Politics and government.

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Another republicanism

Italy after the inundation

The questionable virtues of the Medici

Republican virtue, reconsidered

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1107125502

9781107125506

OCLC:

1004091428