Machiavelli's Broken World

ISBN-13: 9780199580927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 496 str.

Professor Emeritus o John M. (Professor Emeritus of History

Opis

Machiavelli was painfully aware of living in a disastrous moment of Italy's history, and was harshly critical of Italy's princes, its professional soldiers, and the Church. This is a study of his evaluation of their failures, especially how wealthy elites were prepared to undermine law and government to preserve and augment their power and wealth.

Recenzje

One cannot finish this book without developing a deep appreciation for Machiavelli's perceptive insights into the nature of political power and the author's ability to uncover and synthesize those perceptions from the corpus of Machiavelli's pertinent works...Scholars interested in historiography will appreciate the explication of Machiavelli's use of ancient Roman history (e.g., the Gracchi) to compare and contrast the events of his world. Choice

O autorze

John M. Najemy has published on Machiavelli, in addition to many essays, a study of the famous epistolary exchange with Francesco Vettori, exploring the political and personal contexts in which Machiavelli wrote The Prince (Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515, 1993). He has also written two books on Florentine history, including A History of Florence, 1200-1575 (2006; Italian translation, 2014), and essays on a variety of Italian authors from Albertano da Brescia and Brunetto Latini to Leon Battista Alberti and Baldassare Castiglione. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli (2010) and Italy in the Age of the Renaissance (2004) in the Short Oxford History of Italy series.