Umanesimo civile machiavelli biography
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Introduction
Machiavelli’s notion of the temporality and materialistic conditioning of politics entailed a conceptual revolution that proved seminal to the modern understanding of politics. The foremost representative of a Renaissance movement that broke away from the received wisdom of classic and medieval philosophy, in The Prince Machiavelli demolished the classical questions of good government, the public weal, or who is to rule. Indeed, Machiavelli helped beget modern political science by substituting a ruthless view of action where what mattered is achieving power efficiently and holding on to it. This new paradigm forsworn the ancients’ aspirations to wisdom and prudence. A raw description of domination strategies, nothing in it resembled the search for a universal moral standard to tell good from bad types of government. Yet, drawing upon the writings of the ancients in ways that differed radically from Christianity, Machiavelli also helped reconfigure how repub
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Coordonat de Elias VAVOURAS
Volum IX, Nr. 3 (33), Serie nouă, iunie-august 2021
From Petrarch to Machiavelli: the birth of a political ancestry during Fascism
Laura MITAROTONDO
Abstract: This contribution aims to examine the declensions of the connection between Petrarch and Machiavelli, in some studies carried out between the Twenties and Forties of the 20th Century. It is in fact a key critical season which brings such a relationship into sharp focus for defining the terms of Petrarch’s politicalness as well as for bringing into the light some modern sources of Machiavelli’s, indispensable for understanding his vision on history and classical models. In some of the readings of these years, beside a historical-philological address, another one is found, more exquisitely ideological in character, which, in the relationship between the two authors, aims to give value to the nationalistic component, and then a given perception of Italy and its role in history, als • "The Originality of Machiavelli". Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 33-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843237-007 (2013). The Originality of Machiavelli. In Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition) (pp. 33-100). Princeton: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843237-007 2013. The Originality of Machiavelli. Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition). Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 33-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843237-007 "The Originality of Machiavelli" In Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition), 33-100. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843237-007 The Originality of Machiavelli. In: Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Second Edition). Princeton: Princeton University P
The Originality of Machiavelli