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The Sweetness Of Power: Machiavelli's Discourses And Guicciardini's Considerations

by Niccolò Machiavelli

2021-01-08 07:35:20

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The question of order inspired two of the greatest political thinkers of the Renaissance-Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, whose major works on the nature of government are linked in an authoritative new translation. Political adve... Read more

The question of order inspired two of the greatest political thinkers of the Renaissance-Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, whose major works on the nature of government are linked in an authoritative new translation. Political adversaries but nonetheless friends, Machiavelli and Guicciardini both reflected on ancient Rome and refined their conceptions of government with an eye to the political turmoil of their own Florence.

Based on the definitive Italian editions and including extensive explanatory notes, this new translation re-creates the fascinating conflict that helped to shape the history of political thought.

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File size9 X 6 X 1.3 in
Print pages504
PublisherCornell University Press
Publication date August 14, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780875806181
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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (/ˌmækiəˈvɛli/, Italian: [nikkoˈlɔ mmakjaˈvɛlli]; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, writ...

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