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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463926103321

Autore

Jurdjevic Mark

Titolo

A great and wretched city : promise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought / / Mark Jurdjevic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Harvard University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-674-36903-3

0-674-36899-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Collana

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; ; 13

Disciplina

945/.506

Soggetti

Republicanism - Italy - Florence - History

Electronic books.

Florence (Italy) Politics and government 1421-1737

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009366903321

Titolo

Atherosclerosis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Amsterdam], : Elsevier Science

ISSN

1879-1484

Disciplina

616.136

Soggetti

Arteriosclerosis

Medicine - Research

Cardiovascular system

Research

Research - periodicals

Artériosclérose

Médecine - Recherche

Appareil cardiovasculaire

Recherche

research (function)

Atherosclerosis obliterans

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

"International journal for research and investigation on atherosclerosis and related diseases."