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A Government of Creditors: Machiavelli on Genoa, the Bank of San Giorgio, and the Financial Oligarchy

Polity, 2022
If Machiavelli was a committed republican, as the dominant interpretations suggest, then why did he heap praise on an oligarchic creditor government that ran the city of Genoa in the fifteenth century?
Yves Winter
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Quentin Skinner, contextual method and Machiavelli's understanding of liberty

History of the Human Sciences, 2022
The article examines Quentin Skinner's influential interpretation of Machiavelli's views on liberty, and the sharp divergence between his methodological ideas and his actual practice.
Nikola Regent
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Curing Virtue: Epicureanism and Erotic Fantasy in Machiavelli’s Mandragola

Political Theory, 2022
Who is Lucrezia, the mysterious woman at the center of Machiavelli’s comic play Mandragola? And why is she deemed “fit to govern a kingdom”? This article revisits these questions with attention to Mandragola’s sophisticated, and often irreverent ...
M. Clarke
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Machiavelli's Effectual Truth

, 2023
Machiavelli is said to be a Renaissance thinker, yet in a notable phrase he invented, 'the effectual truth,' he attacked the high-sounding humanism typical of the Renaissance, while mounting a conspiracy against the classical and Christian values of his ...
H. C. Mansfield
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Machiavelli and constituent power: The revolutionary foundation of modern political thought

European Journal of Political Theory, 2017
This paper considers Niccolò Machiavelli’s contribution to a theory of constituent power. Modern authors who have analysed the concept of constituent power generally agree on its ambiguous, paradoxical and apparently contradictory essence.
Filippo Del Lucchese
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Human Character and the Formation of the State: Reconsidering Machiavelli and Polybius 6

Journal of the History of Ideas, 2021
This article aims to contribute to a growing debate over the sources of a crucial opening chapter in Machiavelli’s Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (1517)— a chapter widely regarded as foundational for the politi cal theory developed in the ...
J. Dymond
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Aristocratic Insolenzia and the Role of Senates in Machiavelli's Mixed Republic

The Review of Politics, 2021
This essay offers an alternative to influential interpretations of elites, peoples, and senates in Niccolò Machiavelli's theory of mixed republics. It analyzes in greater depth both Machiavelli's ascription of the morally objectionable and politically ...
John P. McCormick
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Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life

Political Theory, 2021
This essay interprets Machiavelli’s famous letter to Francesco Vettori in terms of a play-element that runs across his works. The letter to Vettori is a masterpiece of epistolary form, but beyond its most memorable passage, where Machiavelli recounts his
Robyn Marasco
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Machiavelli: from radical to reactionary

Cultural Criticism in the Netherlands, 1933-1940, 2020
Niccolò Machiavelli never used the term “natural law” and never discussed the subject. His silence is quite eloquent, if we consider that the concept amply circulated in the political and intellectual context of his time.
Maurizio Viroli
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Machiavelli’s Critique of Classical Philosophy and His Case for The Political Life

, 2021
This article illuminates how Machiavelli’s critique of classical philosophy is fundamental to his teaching. It will argue that Machiavelli criticized classical philosophy for its ineffectiveness and its endorsement of the leisurely philosophic life as ...
Rasoul Namazi
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