The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli : with related documents / translated, edited, and with an introduction by William J. Connell.
Niccolò Machiavelli 1469-1527
BookThroughout his life, Niccolo Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations. Transcending a narrow emphasis on his two most famous works of political thought, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray instead present a wide sample of the many genres in which he wrote-not only political theory but also letters, poetry, plays, comedy, and, most substantially, history. Throughout his writing, the city of Florence was at the same time his principal subject and his principal context. Florentine culture and history structured his mental landscape, determined his idiom, underpinned his politics, and endowed everything he wrote with urgency and purpose. The Florentine particulars in Machiavelli's writing reveal aspects of his psyche, politics, and life that are little known outside of specialist circles-particularly his optimism and idealism, his warmth and humor, his capacity for affection and loyalty, and his stubborn, enduring republicanism. Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings has been carefully curated to reveal those crucial but lesser known aspects of Machiavelli's thought and to show how his major arguments evolved within a dynamic Florentine setting.
Title |
Machiavelli : political, historical, and literary writings / edited by Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray translations by Meredith K. Ray. |
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Contributors |
Jurdjevic, Mark (editor) Ray, Meredith K., 1969- (editor translator) |
Publisher |
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Creation Date |
[2019] |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
Ch. 1. Early letters, poems, and military writings (1498-1513) -- ch. 2. Excerpts from The Prince (1513-15) -- ch. 3. Excerpts from Discourses on Livy (1515-19) -- ch. 4. The Mandrake (1515-17) -- ch. 5. Articles for a Pleasure Company (post-1504) -- ch. 6. Belfagor (1524) -- ch. 7. Excerpts from The Art of War (1519-20) -- ch. 8. Allocution to a Magistrate (1519-20) -- ch. 9. Discourse on Florentine Affairs After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger (1520-1521) -- ch. 10. Midcareer letters (1517-24) -- ch. 11. Duties of an Ambassador (1522) -- ch. 12. Excerpts from the Florentine Histories (1525) -- ch. 13. Late letters (1525-27). |
Series |
Haney Foundation series |
Extent |
viii, 334 pages 24 cm. |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2019 |
National Library system number |
997008636108305171 |
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