Garments of Court and Palace
Subtitle: Machiavelli and the World That He Made
Publisher: Atlantic Books, Limited; Atlantic Books
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781843546849
Subjects: Political science, early works to 1800; Political science, philosophy; Machiavelli, niccolo, 1469-1527; Feudalism, europe; Italy, politics and government; Kings and rulers
Description: "The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics - and in particular the politics of power - ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original interpreter of modern statecraft, presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli's Italy and demonstrates how The Prince articulates a new idea of government that emerged during the Renaissance. Bobbitt argues that when The Prince is read alongside the Discourses, modern readers can see clearly how Machiavelli prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of a recognizably modern polity. As this book shows, publication of The Prince in 1532 represents nothing less than a revolutionary moment in our understanding of the place of the law and war in the creation and maintenance of the modern state."--Publisher description.