TY - BOOK AU - Vivanti,Corrado AU - MacMichael,Simon TI - Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography SN - 9781400849055 AV - DG738.14.M2 U1 - 320.1092 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Intellectuals KW - Italy KW - Florence KW - Biography KW - Renaissance KW - Statesmen KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory KW - bisacsh KW - Adagia KW - Age of Enlightenment KW - Agostino Vespucci KW - Ammianus Marcellinus KW - Ancient Rome KW - Andrea del Sarto KW - Antonio Gramsci KW - Barbarian KW - Battle of Marignano KW - Benvenuto Cellini KW - Cadet branch KW - Captain general KW - Caterina Sforza KW - Catherine de' Medici KW - Cesare Borgia KW - Civil religion KW - Coluccio Salutati KW - Condottieri KW - Conspiracy theory KW - Cosimo de' Medici KW - Council of Ten KW - Council of Trent KW - Criticism of Christianity KW - Democracy in America KW - Despotism KW - Dictatorship KW - Diplomacy KW - Enemy of God (novel) KW - Etruscan civilization KW - Flattery KW - For the Glory KW - Francesco Guicciardini KW - Francis Bacon (artist) KW - French Wars of Religion KW - Friedrich Meinecke KW - Galeazzo Maria Sforza KW - Georg von Frundsberg KW - Giovanni Villani KW - Girolamo Savonarola KW - Giuliano da Sangallo KW - Giuliano de' Medici KW - Herodian KW - High politics KW - Hostility KW - House of Medici KW - Indulgence KW - Jacob Burckhardt KW - Leonardo Bruni KW - Life of Castruccio Castracani KW - Livy KW - Lorenzo de' Medici KW - Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici KW - Louis XII of France KW - Lucretius KW - Machiavellianism KW - Majesty KW - March on Rome KW - Matteo Bandello KW - Mercenary KW - Multitude KW - Niccolò Machiavelli KW - Norberto Bobbio KW - Original meaning KW - Orlando Furioso KW - Ostracism KW - Patrician (ancient Rome) KW - Persecution KW - Pessimism KW - Petrarch KW - Philippe Verdelot KW - Poggio Bracciolini KW - Political philosophy KW - Politics KW - Poliziano KW - Pope Alexander VI KW - Pope Clement VII KW - Pope Julius II KW - Pope Leo X KW - Potentate KW - Prince of the Church KW - Prison Notebooks KW - Prisoner in the Vatican KW - Religious war KW - Republic of Florence KW - Romagna KW - Sedition KW - Signoria KW - Slavery KW - Sovereignty KW - State of nature KW - Subversion KW - Suetonius KW - Sulla KW - Superiority (short story) KW - The Other Hand KW - V KW - WIN Party KW - War KW - Warfare KW - Writing N1 - restricted access N2 - A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thoughtThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the close connections between Machiavelli's thought and his changing fortunes during the tumultuous Florentine republic and his subsequent exile. Vivanti's concise account covers not only Machiavelli's most famous works-The Prince, The Discourses, The Florentine Histories, and The Art of War-but also his letters, poetry, and comic dramas. While setting Machiavelli's life against a dramatic backdrop of war, crisis, and diplomatic intrigue, the book also paints a vivid human portrait of the man UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400849055?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400849055 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400849055/original ER -