TY - BOOK ID - 85473236 TI - Machiavelli's Florentine republic PY - 2018 SN - 1108563791 1316410773 1108675581 1107125502 9781107181717 9781107125506 1107181712 9781108675581 9781316410776 1107565103 9781107565104 9781107565104 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom New York DB - UniCat KW - Republicanism KW - Political science KW - History KW - Machiavelli, Niccolò, KW - Florence (Italy) KW - Politics and government KW - Republicanism - Italy - Florence - History - 16th century KW - Machiavelli, Niccolò, - 1469-1527. - Istorie fiorentine KW - Florence (Italy) - Politics and government - 1421-1737 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85473236 AB - What do modern republics have to fear? Machiavelli's Florentine Republic reconstructs Machiavelli's answer to this question from the perspective of the Florentine Histories, his most probing meditation on the fate of republican politics in the modern age. It argues that his principle goal in narrating the defeat of Florentine republicanism is to debunk the views of leading humanists concerning the overall health of republican politics in modernity and the distinctive challenges that modern republics should expect to face. The Medici family had exposed these vulnerabilities better than anyone else, and Machiavelli reconstructs their political strategy to show how conventional ideas of moral and political virtue are the most potent instruments of princely ambition in a city that wants to be free. ER -