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Machiavelli

Machiavelli

by RobertBlack (Author)

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    Paperback 2013

    $42.35
Synopsis

Machiavelli is history's most startling political commentator. Recent interpreters have minimised his originality, but this book restores his radicalism. Robert Black shows a clear development in Machiavelli's thought. In his most subversive works The Prince, the Discourses on Livy, The Ass and Mandragola he rejected the moral and political values inherited by the Renaissance from antiquity and the middle ages. These outrageous compositions were all written in mid-life, when Machiavelli was a political outcast in his native Florence. Later he was reconciled with the Florentine establishment, and as a result his final compositions including his famous Florentine Histories represent a return to more conventional norms.

This lucid work is perfect for students of Medieval and Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies and Italian Literature, or anyone keen to learn more about one of history's most potent, influential and arresting writers.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 380
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 27 Aug 2013
ISBN 10: 0582784069
ISBN 13: 9780582784062
Book Overview:

Machiavelli is the most notorious and famous political writer ever. He is a by word for sneakiness and corrupton. He told leaders to abandon all previous morality in an orgy of self seeking manipulation. Who was the man behind the `The Prince' and how did his unorthodox life make its way into what he wrote?


Media Reviews

...[this book] is a very valuable resource for anyone who wants to approach for the first time the work and life of one of the most influential and controversial political thinkers. -Mario Prades Vilar in Sixteenth Century Journal

Author Bio
Robert Black is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds, with publications in the fields of Renaissance humanism, school and university education, Florentine political history, Renaissance historiography and the history of the classical tradition. His books include Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance (1985), Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2001), Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany (2007) and Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics (2011).