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In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575.

• Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy
• Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments
• Academically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader
• Likely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender,...

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime, and the most prominent themes of his thought, including the founding, evolution, and corruption of republics and principalities, class conflict, liberty, arms, religion, ethics, rhetoric, gender,...