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100 1 _aJurdjevic, Mark
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Great and Wretched City :
_bPromise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought /
_cMark Jurdjevic.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (305 p.)
336 _atext
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490 0 _aI Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ;
_v13
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_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
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aRepublicanism
_zItaly
_zFlorence
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Italy.
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