The garments of court and palace : : Machiavelli and the world that he made / / Philip Bobbitt.

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Place / Publishing House:New York : : Grove Press,, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 270 pages) :; illustrations, map
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Table of Contents:
  • Arte dello stato : the Machiavelli paradox
  • The unholy necromancer and his Koran for courtiers
  • Ordini : the important structure of 'The Prince.' The emergence of the modern state ; Can a statesman get into heaven? ; 'The Prince' is a constitutional treatise
  • Lo stato : the relation of 'The Prince' to the 'Discourses on Livy.' A republic's duty of consequentialism ; Good arms, good laws ; Machiavelli's philosophy of state
  • Virtu e Fortuna : God does not want to do everything. Virtu is from Mars, Fortuna is from Venus ; Machiavelli's view of history ; Machiavelli's philosophy of fate
  • Occasione : the interesting timing of 'The Prince.' The Borgias and the Medici ; Machiavelli's constitution ; Machiavelli's vision
  • The Machiavelli paradox resolved
  • Satan's theologian.