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Rule by Natural Reason: Late Medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper argues that, from about the eleventh century CE, a new and distinctive model of corruption accompanied the rediscovery and increased availability of a number of classical texts and ideals, particularly those of Cicero and the Roman Jurists. -
500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli discovered
Posted on March 6, 2013 | No CommentsThe original copy of a proclamation - exactly 500-years old - calling for the arrest of Niccolò Machiavelli has been discovered by a British historian. -
Shakespeare’s Richard II: Machiavelli for the Good of England
Posted on December 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe name Machiavelli has negative connotations, and this way of thinking is not new. Throughout Europe, in Shakespeare’s time and earlier, Machiavellianism was associated with unscrupulous abuse of power, and Machiavellian methods were seen as immoral and evil. -
Reading Machiavelli Rhetorically: The Prince as Covert Critique of the Renaissance Prince
Posted on September 17, 2012 | No CommentsIn this essay, classical rhetorical theory is applied to show that Machiavelli's Prince was not intended as advice for a prince, nor as "political science," but rather as a very subtle, but nevertheless powerful, critique of the Italian princes of his day, the Medici included. -
Machiavelli on Christian Education
Posted on July 20, 2012 | No CommentsMy primary point is not to vindicate Christian education as good for the well-being of cities but to complicate the assumptions of the civil religion approach by examining Machiavelli’s reflections on human character and psychology. -
‘Guelphs! Faction, Liberty and Sovereignty: Inquiries about the Quattrocento’
Posted on June 18, 2012 | No CommentsSuch an approach has not always been the obvious one, as the centuries- long debate about the nature of the Italian noble (or magnate) and Popolo fac- tions suggests. Gaetano Salvemini’s 1899 interpretation of Florentine political conflict in the thirteenth century as the clash between two groups with distinct socio-economic characters and political programmes was probably as much indebted to Machiavelli as to the author’s socialist beliefs -
The Originality of Machiavelli
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsThere is evidently something peculiarly disturbing about what Machiavelli said or implied, something that has caused profound and lasting uneasiness. -
The Place of the Tyrant in Machiavelli’s Political Thought and the Literary Genre of the Prince
Posted on January 8, 2012 | No CommentsWhen Machiavelli put in writing his thoughts on government, he was the heir of this long-established tradition of reflection on tyranny... -
The Political Ideas of Machiavelli: A Fresh Look
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe early sixteenth century marked a watershed period for political writings on the art of governing. -
Niccolo Machiavelli – the Cunning Critic of Political Reason
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsIs Machiavelli’s lasting reputation as the philosopher-king of political manipulation really justified? -
Disposable alliances: Aragon and Castille during the War of the two Pedros and beyond
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No CommentsDisposable alliances: Aragon and Castille during the War of the two Pedros and beyond Kagay, Donald J. Albany State University, Working Paper (2010) Abstract If as Clausewitz declared “war is... -
Towards Modernity and Absolute Power: Interpretation of Kingship in
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsTowards Modernity and Absolute Power: Interpretation of Kingship in The Book of the Twelve Wise Men and The Seven Books of Law McLean, Benjamin Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary... -
“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal
Posted on July 26, 2011 | No Comments“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal Piccirillo, Anthony Carmen (Georgetown University) Senior Honors Thesis in History, Georgetown University,... -
The Borgias: “The Borgias in Love”, SE01 EP05
Posted on May 1, 2011 | No Comments“The Borgias In Love” Cesare pursues Baroness Ursula, while Lucrezia falls in love with the stable boy and plots against her brutish husband. Political plots thicken as Cardinal Della Rovere... -
The Borgias: SE01 EP01/EP01 – “The Poisoned Chalice/The Assassin”
Posted on April 20, 2011 | No CommentsThe House of Borgias The Borgias were a Spanish papal family who rose to prominence through their involvement in ecclesiastical and political affairs during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They... -
IVAN IV: A MACHIAVELLIAN TSAR
Posted on January 23, 2011 | No CommentsIVAN IV: A MACHIAVELLIAN TSAR Carswell, Robyn E. Historia, Vol.15 (2006) Abstract Dating back to Riurik, Russia has always had strong leaders who stopped at nothing to ensure the success of the...