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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 September 2010
      24 June 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511780691
      9780521861250
      9780521678469
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521861250
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 306 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, History of Ideas, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, History of Ideas, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    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.

    Reviews

    "...with a splendid collection of essays that showcase the many ways in which politics and language merged seamlessly in Machiavelli’s life and works."
    -MARK JURDJEVIC,Glendon College, York University

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