A Great and Wretched City - Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought - Hardback - 2014

Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavellis political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavellis contempt for Florences shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the citys unrealized political potential.
Year of publication: 2014
Pagination: 312 pages
Format: Hardback
Serie: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History