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The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made

By Philip Bobbitt

Book information

Publisher
Atlantic Books Ltd
Year
2013
ISBN
9781782391425
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
621 kB (635830 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-11-10 16:03:20

Description

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics - and in particular the politics of power - ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original interpreter of modern statecraft, presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli's Italy and demonstrates how The Prince articulates a new idea of government that emerged during the Renaissance. Bobbitt argues that when The Prince is read alongside the Discourses, modern readers can see clearly how Machiavelli prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of a recognizably modern polity. As this book shows, publication of The Prince in 1532 represents nothing less than a revolutionary moment in our understanding of the place of the law and war in the creation and maintenance of the modern state.

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