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  • The Many and the Few

    Machiavelli and Guicciardini’s Critique of Aristocratic Regimes

    by Mark Jurdjevic ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    The Many and the Few reconstructs a pattern of recurring populist themes in the writings of Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolò Machiavelli. These two pioneering thinkers of the late Renaissance are almost always presented in terms of dramatic contrasts – while Machiavelli’s violent populism and scorn for aristocratic culture is well established, many consider Guicciardini the most influential ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, John P. McCormick ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, John P. McCormick ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Machiavelli

    Political, Historical, and Literary Writings

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. 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. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Machiavelli

    Political, Historical, and Literary Writings

    Edited by Mark Jurdjevic, Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. 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. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • A Great and Wretched City

    Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought

    by Mark Jurdjevic ...
    Series Book 13 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    Like 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, ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Guardians of Republicanism

    The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance

    by Mark Jurdjevic ...
    Guardians of Republicanism analyses the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence-republican and princely-by focusing on five generations of the Valori family, each of which played a dynamic role in the city's political and cultural life. The Valori were early and influential supporters of the Medici family, but were also crucial participants in the city's periodic republican ... Read more

    $104.39 USD