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Italian scholars, the historian Carlo Ginzburg, the historian of early modern philosophy Michele Ciliberto, and the historian of Italian literature Alberto Asor Rosa, each published a monograph on Machiavelli. Although in different ways and with different aims, the three scholars engage with the central themes of Machiavelli scholarship: Machiavelli's relationship with religion and his appraisal of the figure of Savonarola; the tension between Machiavelli as a subtle political theorist and his failure to influence contemporary political events; Machiavelli's language and the key terms of his political views, such as fortune and virtue; the Italian Renaissance crisis and its historical significance; the relationship between his literary production and his political writings and agency; war and politics; his relationship with Francesco Guicciardini; the nexus between history and politics; and Machiavelli's "negative anthropology," which contrasted with a supposed humanist view centered on man. All these issues are, evidently, intertwined. Machiavelli's main work was the Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (Discourses on Livy, 1540), a book in which ancient history and contemporary politics are closely connected. The relationship between Machiavelli's historiographical research and the political dimension of his writings has ultimately been the main focus of Italian scholarship on Machiavelli. For these three scholars, the interest of Machiavelli is not merely academic but is connected to the understanding of the cultural and political history of Italy in the long
In copertina: ritratto di Machiavelli dal frontespizio della edizione Cosmopoli [= Venezia] 1769. In quarta: medaglia dallo stesso frontespizio. Bibliografia delle edizioni di Niccolò Machiavelli: 1506-1914 Editors (responsabili dell'insieme): PIERO INNOCENTI, MARIELISA ROSSI Contenuto e Divisione dell'opera: serie cronologica di edizioni di opere di Niccolò Machiavelli e dei caposaldi della sua recezione, imitazione, riecheggiamento, plagio (sia in lingua originale, sia in traduzione), relativi al periodo che va dal 1506, presumibile data del primo Decennale, al 1914, anno di pubblicazione in The Forerunner di Benigna Machiavelli, di Charlotte Gilman, scritto paleofemminista. 2018 3 volume 1701-1827. Diviso in quattro capitoli: L'ombra del Principe, L'Antimachiavel, Belfagor & C.: la Compagnia diabolica, Machiavelli in La Fontaine, analizza oltre 650 edizioni. Precedono: P. Innocenti -M. Rossi: L'ombra del Principe, 1701-1827. Margherita Palumbo, «Machiavellus semper excluditur in licentijs...». Spartaco Pupo, Il Machiavelli di David Hume. Roberto De Pol, La prima traduzione tedesca a stampa del Principe. Rosanna Schito: Raison philosophique / raison politique: il machiavellismo di Federico di Prussia. Giuseppe Sciara, Le traduzioni di Machiavelli in Francia dalla Rivoluzione alla Restaurazione: intenti culturali e usi politici. Marcello Simonetta, The lost Discourse on governments by Machiavelli's friend Zanobi Buondelmonti. € 70,00 ISBN 978-88-8247-409-6 9 7 8 8 8 8 2 4 7 4 0 9 6 Istorico, comico, tragico VECCHIARELLI EDITORE P. INNOCENTI -M. ROSSI BIBLIOGRAFIA DELLE EDIZIONI DI NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI -III Bibliografia delle edizioni di Niccolò Machiavelli: 1506-1914 Formato 20,5x29 cm Editors (responsabili dell'insieme): schungs-Zentrum Erfurt-Gotha. Contenuto e Divisione dell'opera: serie cronologica di edizioni di opere di Niccolò Machiavelli edei caposaldi della sua recezione, imitazione, riecheggiamento, plagio (sia in lingua originale, sia in traduzione), relativi al periodo che va dal 1506, presumibile data del primo Decennale, al 1914, anno di pubblicazione in The Forerunner. di Benigna Machiavelli, di Charlotte Gilman, scritto paleofemminista. L'opera è divisa in quattro volumi: 2015 1 volume 1506-1604.
Machiavelli, Guicciardini and the “Governo Largo”
Ratio Juris, 2015
Niccolò Machiavelli's support for what he calls governo largo, or popular government, is usually contrasted with the diffidence towards it of Francesco Guicciardini, the Florentine aristocrat. The article argues that both these authors grounded their vision on Polybius' theory of "mixed government," though adapting it in different directions. In examining this difference, the article reaches the conclusion that it concerns far less the degree of popular participation in political decision-making and government than the value that Machiavelli and Guicciardini respectively ascribe to it in comparison with that of safety-liberty (or legal certainty). In this respect, their theories may be viewed as anticipating the tensions between democracy and the rule of law, the co-presence of which provides the essential foundation of the structure of present-day constitutional democracies. bs_bs_banner
Confusion verging on chaos aptly describes Italian politics between any two points in time. That being said, the amount of outright violence, political backstabbing and social upheaval Machiavelli had to put up with - as a successful bureaucrat and diplomat first (1498-1512), and later as a disgraced citizen (1512-27) is, with few if any exceptions, virtually unmatched in the history of Italian philosophy. At any rate, it is conspicuous enough to put him in a league of his own (among political thinkers). All the more so since, in Machiavelli's own words, his claim to originality rested on a return to the things themselves and the 'real truth' they convey through experience, as opposed to the traditional proclivity towards speculation regarding 'imaginary things', most notably by portraying fanciful characters and devising political regimes that can only exist on paper. Indeed, philosophers had long been lecturing- either in flawless syllogistic fashion or in vivid rhetorical style - both rulers and subjects on how they should behave and interact. However, they had taken little notice of how they actually go about their business. Alternatively, what does unbiased, direct observation of the present and extensive, informed reading of the past teach us about the ways of the world?
In this article I aim to explore the intellectual relationship between Zanobi Buondelmonti and Machiavelli, relying on published sources as well as on an unknown fragment of a Discourse on governments that was most likely delivered in the May 1522 to cardinal Giulio de’ Medici. This discourse by Buondelmonti, discovered in the British Library, shows that even the closest collaborators of the former Florentine Secretary may have misunderstood his shockingly radical perspective. It also helps us question, once again, the substance of Machiavelli’s anti-moralistic stance and his complicated legacy.