LEADER 04103nam 2200649 450 001 9910811308403321 005 20230126212229.0 010 $a0-674-36903-3 010 $a0-674-36899-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674368996 035 $a(CKB)2670000000543814 035 $a(EBL)3301404 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133951 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11722387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133951 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11159306 035 $a(PQKB)11303596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301404 035 $a(DE-B1597)427921 035 $a(OCoLC)871688709 035 $a(OCoLC)979954009 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674368996 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301404 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10841968 035 $a(dli)HEB32245 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000039 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000543814 100 $a20140314h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA great and wretched city $epromise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought /$fMark Jurdjevic 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cHarvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 0 $aI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;$v13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-72546-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Savonarolan Lens --$t2. Roman Doubts --$t3. Nobles and Noble Culture in the Florentine Histories --$t4. A New View of the People --$t5. The Albizzi Regime in the Florentine Histories --$t6. The Virtues and Vices of Medici Power in the Florentine Histories --$t7. The Failure of Florentine Institutions --$tConclusion: Machiavelli's Republican Realism --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aLike many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of better times. Despite the alternating tones of sarcasm and despair he used to describe Florentine affairs, Machiavelli provided a stubbornly persistent sense that his city had all the materials and potential necessary for a wholesale, triumphant, and epochal political renewal. As he memorably put it, Florence was "truly a great and wretched city." Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Medici. He shows that significant and as yet unrecognized aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were distinctly Florentine in inspiration, content, and purpose. From a new perspective and armed with new arguments, A Great and Wretched City reengages the venerable debate about Machiavelli's relationship to Renaissance republicanism. Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered Machiavelli only negative lessons, Jurdjevic argues that his contempt for the city's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of its unrealized political potential. 410 0$aI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history 517 3 $aPromise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought 606 $aRepublicanism$zItaly$zFlorence$xHistory 607 $aFlorence (Italy)$xPolitics and government$y1421-1737 615 0$aRepublicanism$xHistory. 676 $a945/.506 700 $aJurdjevic$b Mark$01006607 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811308403321 996 $aA great and wretched city$94086403 997 $aUNINA