Machiavelli : from radical to reactionary / Robert Black.

• Humanist, poet, civil servant, 1469-1512 -- The aspiring Medici courtier, 1512-16 -- Republican, critic of Christianity and man of letters, 1515 and beyond -- The emerging conservative, 1519-27 -- Machiavelli's legacy.

• 'Machiavellian' can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, first-rank dramatist and religious radical, rejecting not only the contemporary Catholic Church but Christianity itself. From champion of Florentine popular republicanism to political radical to conservative, Robert Black explores the many faces of the man described as the father of modern political philosophy and political science. -- 

Ämnesord

Statsmän  (sao)

Statesmen  -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. (LCSH)

Intellectuals  -- Italy -- Biography. (LCSH)

Political scientists  -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography. (LCSH)

Authors, Italian  -- Biography. (LCSH)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers.  (bisacsh)

Authors, Italian.  (fast)

Intellectuals.  (fast)

Political scientists.  (fast)

Politics and government.  (fast)

Statesmen.  (fast)

Statesmen  (LCSH)

Italien  -- Florens (sao)

Italy  -- Politics and government -- 1268-1559. (LCSH)

Florence (Italy)  -- History -- 1421-1737. (LCSH)

Italy.  (fast)

Italy  -- Florence. (fast)

1400-talet  (sao)

1500-talet  (sao)

1268-1737  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Biographies.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527

Klassifikation

DG738.14.M2 (LCC)

320.1092 (DDC)

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