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Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed

By Vickie B. Sullivan

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
1501747843, 9781501747847
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1564903 bytes)
Pages
252\247
Time added
2022-03-23 23:49:36

Description

Machiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a contentious and long-standing debate among scholars. Whereas some insist that Machiavelli is a Christian, others maintain he is a pagan. Sullivan mediates between these divergent views by arguing that he is neither but that he utilizes elements of both understandings arrayed in a wholly new way. In this illuminating study, Sullivan shows Machiavelli's thought to be a highly original response to what he understood to be the crisis of his times.

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