Machiavelli and Republicanism (Ideas in Context)
Contributors: Gisela Bock (Editor); Quentin Skinner (Editor); Maurizio Viroli (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521435895
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political structures: democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: Florence, wrote Machiavelli in 1519 or 1520 in his Discursus on the reform of the Florentine government, has never been a 'repubblica...che abbi avute le debite qualita sue' - an observation which recapitulates the statement made a few years earlier in his Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio that 'per dugento anni che si ha di vera memoria', Florence had never possessed a 'stato, per il quale la possa veramente essere chiamata republica'.