Niccolò Machiavelli an intellectual biography /

Vivanti, Corrado (1928-....)

Niccolò Machiavelli an intellectual biography / [Texte imprimé] : Corrado Vivanti ; translated by Simon MacMichael - Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, cop. 2013 - 1 vol. (XVII-261 p.) ; 23 cm

Traduction de : Niccolò Machiavelli

Notes bibliogr.

Part I. The Florentine secretary -- A shadowy period : the first half of his life -- The relationship with Savonarola -- The activity in the Chancery -- The correspondence with functionaries of the domain -- Diplomatic activity -- The experience of the early missions -- Changes of fortune and the Ghiribizzi al Soderino -- The Florentine ordinance -- The Venetian defeat and the reconquest of Pisa -- The end of the republic and the return of the Medici -- Part II. Exile in his homeland -- The confinement at Sant'Andrea -- "I have composed a little work on princedoms" -- The "myth" of the prince -- Frequenting the Orti Oricellari -- An original comment on Livy -- The art of war -- Part III. "Niccolo Machiavelli, historian, comic writer, and tragic writer" -- A new season in Machiavelli's life -- A return to business -- "The annals or the history of Florence" -- "The things done at home and abroad by the Florentine people" -- The friendship with Guicciardini -- Clizia and the musical madrigals -- Final act -- Appendix: Notes on the use of the word stato in Machiavelli


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978-0-691-15101-4

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 Intellectuals / Italy / Florence / Biography Statesmen / Italy / Florence / Biography Florence (Italy) / Intellectual life / 16th century Florence (Italy) / Politics and government / 1421-1737

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