Description Throughout his life, Niccol Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics.
Ray is Professor of Italian at the University of Delaware..
Meredith K.
Mc Cormick, of Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
About the Author Mark Jurdjevic is Professor of History at York University and coeditor, with Natasha Piano and John P.
Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings has been carefully curated to reveal those crucial but lesser known aspects of Machiavelli\'s thought and to show how his major arguments evolved within a dynamic Florentine setting.
The Florentine particulars in Machiavelli\'s writing reveal aspects of his psyche, politics, and life that are little known outside of specialist circles--particularly his optimism and idealism, his warmth and humor, his capacity for affection and loyalty, and his stubborn, enduring republicanism.
Florentine culture and history structured his mental landscape, determined his idiom, underpinned his politics, and endowed everything he wrote with urgency and purpose.
Throughout his writing, the city of Florence was at the same time his principal subject and his principal context.
Ray instead present a wide sample of the many genres in which he wrote--not only Political theory but also letters, poetry, plays, comedy, and, most substantially, history.
Transcending a narrow emphasis on his two most famous works of Political thought, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K.
This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli\'s intellectual preoccupations.
More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city\'s history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence.
Description Throughout his life, Niccol Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics
