A Great and Wretched City : : Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought / / Mark Jurdjevic.
Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of better times. Des...
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Jurdjevic, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut A Great and Wretched City : Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought / Mark Jurdjevic. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (305 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 13 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Savonarolan Lens -- 2. Roman Doubts -- 3. Nobles and Noble Culture in the Florentine Histories -- 4. A New View of the People -- 5. The Albizzi Regime in the Florentine Histories -- 6. The Virtues and Vices of Medici Power in the Florentine Histories -- 7. The Failure of Florentine Institutions -- Conclusion: Machiavelli's Republican Realism -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of better times. Despite the alternating tones of sarcasm and despair he used to describe Florentine affairs, Machiavelli provided a stubbornly persistent sense that his city had all the materials and potential necessary for a wholesale, triumphant, and epochal political renewal. As he memorably put it, Florence was "truly a great and wretched city." Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Medici. He shows that significant and as yet unrecognized aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were distinctly Florentine in inspiration, content, and purpose. From a new perspective and armed with new arguments, A Great and Wretched City reengages the venerable debate about Machiavelli's relationship to Renaissance republicanism. Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered Machiavelli only negative lessons, Jurdjevic argues that his contempt for the city's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of its unrealized political potential. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Republicanism Italy Florence History. HISTORY / Europe / Italy. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674725461 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674368996 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674368996 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674368996.jpg |
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