Discourses on Livy

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026885007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as long as each generation did not forget the works of the past. In "Discourses on Livy" Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from roman period and many other eras as well, including the politics of his lifetime. This is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th. The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer. He has often been called the father of modern political science. He was for many years a senior official in the Florentine Republic, with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He served as a secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.He wrote his most well-known work The Prince in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs.

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description

Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: New Readings

Author: Diogo Pires Aurélio
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004442073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.

Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders

Author: Harvey C. Mansfield
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226503704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461

Book Description
"This study, wrought by one of Machiavelli's interpreters, uncovers the hidden intricacies of the Discourses. It will inform and challenge its readers at every step."--BOOK JACKET.

The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

Author: John M. Najemy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Niccolò 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, and the Renaissance dialogue with antiquity. In his own time Machiavelli was recognized as an original thinker who provocatively challenged conventional wisdom. With penetrating analyses of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, Art of War, Florentine Histories, and his plays and poetry, this book offers a vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker as well as assessments of his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Machiavelli in Tumult

Author: Gabriele Pedullà
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107177278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Machiavelli and the Modern State

Author: Alissa M. Ardito
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107693705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341

Book Description
This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccol- Machiavelli's place within it. It locates Machiavelli's political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger, it was believed only monarchies could govern large territories effectively. Republicanism was a form of government relegated to urban city-states, anachronisms in the new age of the territorial state. For centuries, history and theory were in agreement: constructing an extended republic was as futile as trying to square the circle; but then James Madison devised a compound representative republic that enabled popular government to take on renewed life in the modern era. This work argues that Machiavelli had his own Madisonian impulse and deserves to be recognized as the first modern political theorist to envision the possibility of a republic with a large population extending over a broad territory.

Machiavelli's Romans

Author: Patrick Coby
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739100707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Although Machiavelli is usually considered a pioneer among modern political philosophers, he read deeply in and was greatly influenced by the works of classical Roman thinkers such as Livy. There is thus a fundamental tension between the modern and the ancient within Machiavelli's philosophy; he is both a precursor to the Enlightenment and a throwback to republican Rome. This is the main thesis behind Patrick Coby's innovative study of the neglected Machiavellian classic Discourses on Livy. Coby argues that scholars have been too quick to dismiss the ancient antecedents of Machiavelli's thought, particularly with regard to the modes and orders of the Roman republic. The book seeks to resolve the central paradox of the Discourses, that Machiavelli recommends adoption of Roman modes and orders even though those modes and orders destroyed the virtu, the strength, which Machiavelli would have moderns resuscitate by imitating Rome. A sophisticated, highly engaging book, Machiavelli's Romans will be of special interest to political theorists, Renaissance scholars, and classicists.

Machiavelli and Republicanism

Author: Gisela Bock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521435895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition.

Thoughts on Machiavelli

Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022623097X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
The esteemed philosopher’s assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli. Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. “We are in sympathy,” he writes, “with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech.” This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.