TY - BOOK AU - Jurdjevic,Mark TI - A great and wretched city: promise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought T2 - I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history SN - 978-0-674-72546-1 U1 - 945.506 23E PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, London PB - Harvard University Press KW - Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Istorie fiorentine KW - Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 / Political and social views KW - Republicanism / Italy / Florence / History KW - Florence (Italy) / Politics and government / 1421-1737 N1 - Bibliogr. p. 273-284; Introduction : the Florentine question -- The Savonarolan lens -- Roman doubts -- Nobles and noble culture in the Florentine histories -- A new view of the people -- The Albizzi regime in the Florentine histories -- The virtues and vices of Medici power in the Florentine histories -- The failure of Florentine institutions -- Conclusion : Machiavelli's republican realism ER -