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Nevertheless
From the master of "micro-history" a reconstruction of two contrasting early-modern thinkers Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, or case-based ethical reasoning. For as Machiavelli indicated through his repeated use of the adverb nondimanco ("nevertheless"), there is an exception to every rule. Such a perspective may seem to echo the traditional image of Machiavelli as a cynical, "machiavellian" thinker. But a close analys...
The Rope and the Chains
Niccolò Machiavelli counts among the most famous (and infamous) political authors in the history of Western political thought, primarily on account of his book the Prince. Before he wrote that notorious treatise, however, he served for fourteen years as a prominent and active civil administrator in the government of the Republic of Florence. Removed from office in 1512, following a take-over by the Medici dynasty that had ruled the city during much of the fifteenth century, Machiavelli was incarcerated and tortured as a result of unsubstantiated accusations of his involvement in a coup plot. Soon after his release from prison, he composed the Prince, which is generally seen to constitute th...
Connected History
A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization,...
The Venetian Qur'an
In The Venetian Qur'an, Pier Mattia Tommasino uncovers the author, origin, and lasting influence of the Alcorano di Macometto, a book that purported to be the first printed European vernacular translation of the Qur'an.
Problematizing “Il principe”
Whilst he was writing De principatibus, was Machiavelli really as out of touch with the Florentine politico-institutional world as his letter of December 1513 claims? Who read Il principe prior to its publication, and how? Why did the philosopher Agostino Nifo, one of the major proponents of renaissance Averroism, plagiarize it? To what extent is the Machiavellian “principato civile” comprehensible only by way of its Medicean and Florentine affiliation? Did the young Lorenzo de’ Medici’s political programme seek to eliminate the Roman church? What politico-cultural stance is hidden behind certain political terms from the humanist tradition that Machiavelli revisited in Il principe? To what extent was the Machiavellian relationship between animality and humanity, simulation and dissimulation, influenced by Leonardo da Vinci’s oeuvre? And, finally, what are the questions that remain open in Il principe? This compilation offers some possible answers to these questions, thus providing new critical tools for the study of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il principe.
Maquiavelo en la Argentina
Desde que sus libros comenzaron a circular en la Europa del siglo XVI, Nicolás Maquiavelo (1469-1527) fue controvertido y censurado. Se lo asoció con la validación de las conductas más abyectas, con los fenómenos más repudiables, del crimen a la tiranía, de la hipocresía a la violencia. Maquiavelo fue quien dijo lo indecible y, a la vez, quien enseñó la necesidad de la mentira y del engaño; un autor de la franqueza sin eufemismos y un maestro de la simulación. Por esas razones, pudo considerárselo tanto un cómplice del poder como un amigo de la libertad. Si sus consejos al príncipe podían ser un "manual para los tiranos", la exposición sin tapujos de esos mismos consejos per...
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Sacrilegio y redención en la Florencia del Renacimiento
Se presentan una serie de nuevos descubrimientos relacionados con el caso Rinaldeschi. La detallada investigación de los autores nos permite observar hasta qué punto el contexto político y religioso de la Florencia renacentista tuvo una influencia decisiva tanto en la condena a muerte de Rinaldeschi, como en la creación por parte de los partidarios de Savonarola de un nuevo culto en Florencia que sirviera para perpetuar la memoria de lo sucedido.
Machiavelli on Liberty & Conflict
More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates on political thought. While scholars continue to investigate interpretations of The Prince in different contexts throughout history, from the Renaissance to the Risorgimento and Italian unification, other fruitful lines of research explore how Machiavelli’s ideas about power and leadership can further our understanding of contemporary political circumstances. With Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict, David Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara have brought together the most recent research on The Prince, with contributions fro...
Il Principe
Chiosato, interpretato, adattato e spesso anche violentato, Il Principe ha troppo spesso finito per smarrire la propria fisionomia e assumere quella dei suoi ammiratori o detrattori. Questa edizione nasce precisamente dall’auspicio di favorire una nuova intimità con un grande classico più citato che letto, anzitutto giovandosi di una versione in italiano moderno appositamente realizzata da Carmine Donzelli. La traduzione accompagna, a fronte, il testo originale del Principe, mantenendo il procedere spezzato, le peculiarità e – diciamolo pure – la bellezza della prosa machiavelliana, ma al tempo stesso scioglie gli inevitabili ostacoli linguistici e permette di avvicinarsi al testo s...
