A Great and Wretched City Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought【電子書籍】[ Mark Jurdjevic ]

＜p＞Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of better times. Despite the alternating tones of sarcasm and despair he used to describe Florentine affairs, Machiavelli provided a stubbornly persistent sense that his city had all the materials and potential necessary for a wholesale, triumphant, and epochal political renewal. As he memorably put it, Florence was "truly a great and wretched city."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through ＜em＞The Prince＜/em＞, ＜em＞Discourses＜/em＞, correspondence, and, most substantially, ＜em＞Florentine Histories＜/em＞, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Med．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る