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A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought

By Mark Jurdjevic

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780674368996
DOI
10.4159/harvard.9780674368996
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1795638 bytes)
Series
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History; 13
Pages
305\305
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 08:38:43

Description

Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli's contempt for Florence's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city's unrealized political potential.

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