A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought by Mark Jurdjevic

A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

Mark Jurdjevic

295 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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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...

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