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Machiavelli and empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Machiavelli and empire // Mikael Hörnqvist.
remainder title:	Machiavelli & Empire
Author:	Hörnqvist, Mikael,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Political science - Philosophy - To 1500. - Italy -
Subject:	Florence (Italy) - Juvenile fiction. - History - 1421-1737 -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490576
ISBN:	9780511490576 (ebook)

Machiavelli and empire /
Hörnqvist, Mikael,

Machiavelli and empire /Machiavelli & EmpireMikael Hörnqvist. - 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Ideas in context ;71. - Ideas in context ;75..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Another philosophy -- 2. The Republic's two ends -- 3. The natural desire of states -- 4. To destroy them or to live there -- 5. The triumphator -- 6. Rhetoric of hope and despair -- 7. Sublunar writing -- Conclusion: Cui Bono?

Mikael Hörnqvist challenges us to rethink the overall meaning and importance of Machiavelli's political thinking. Machiavelli and Empire combines close textual analysis of The Prince and The Discourses with a broad historical approach, to establish the importance of empire-building and imperial strategy in Machiavelli's thought. The primary context of Machiavelli's work, Hörnqvist argues, is not the mirror-for-princes genre or medieval and Renaissance republicanism in general, but a tradition of Florentine imperialist republicanism dating back to the late thirteenth-century, based on the twin notions of liberty at home and empire abroad. Weaving together themes and topics drawn from contemporary Florentine political debate, Medicean ritual and Renaissance triumphalism, this study explores how Machiavelli in his chancery writings and theoretical works promoted the long standing aspirations of Florence to become a great and expanding empire, modelled on the example of the ancient Roman republic. This is a distinctive and important work.

ISBN: 9780511490576 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1443785
Machiavelli, Niccolò,
1469-1527.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1445606
Political science
--Philosophy--Italy--To 1500.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

804181
Florence (Italy)
--History--1421-1737--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: JC143.M4 / H67 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 320.1

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