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This is a major new scholarly biography of Machiavelli, the first for thirty years. Niccolo di Bernardo Machiavelli is not only one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance, an outstanding author and statesman, he is also indisputably one of the most influential of political theorists, whose fundamental contribution to politics remains astonishingly pertinent to us today. His life was dramatic to the extreme. He achieved notable heights of success as defense secretary and a diplomat. He reformed the Florentine military, replacing mercenary armies with citizens' militia. But his fall from grace was nearly as swift as his rise. Unlike many revolutionary thinkers (Hume, Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Marx) he developed his theories amid the turmoil of his world. His philosophy is thus based on the practical if sordid world he witnessed. The purpose of "The Prince" continues to be contentiously debated. It explores themes which still resonate more than four centuries later: politics and morality, politics as conflict, politics and warfare, corruption and civic stability and the purpose of power, religion, liberty and politics in general.
All this is also part of Paul Oppenheimer's compelling account.
Contents
Preface (Machiavelli's importance today); I Machiavelli and the Renaissance; 1 Modern Evil and the Sack of Rome; 2 Early Years: Family and a Father's Memoir; 3 Education: The Classics as Gateway; 4 Multi-Layered Florence; 5 Medieval Dreams of Salvation; 6 The Infinities of the Renaissance; 7 Savonarola: The Cult of Death; 8 Money and the Florentine Republic; II The Schools of Treachery; 9 At the Chancellery: The War with Pisa; 10 To Forli; 11 To France: At the House of the French King; 12 Marriage as a Refuge; 13 Soderini as Patron; 14 Cesare Borgia; 15 Engineering with Leonardo da Vinci; 16 At Perugia: Pope Julius II; 17 The Science of Politics; 18 The Return of the Medici (1512); 19 Expulsion; III Exile and Creation; 20 "The inventor of new and unusual things"; 21 "Florence lies just over the hill"; 22 The New Language of Politics: The Prince; 23 The New Concept of History: The Discourses; 24 Capitolo and The Golden Ass; 25 The Idolatry of Violence: The Art of War; 26 Inventing Biography: Life of Castruccio Castracani; 27 The Florentine Histories; IV Sallies out of Exile; 28 To Corli and the Franciscans; 29 The Conspiracy at Florence, or Dealing with Michelangelo; 30 Comedy and the Styles of Treachery: The Mandragola; 31 To Rome: The Dilemma of Pope Clement VII (1526); 32 Machiavelli, Dante and Lenin: The Fruits of Exile; V Apocalypse: Treachery as Treason; 33 The Sack of Rome and Modern Terrorism.
