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A Great and Wretched City
Promise and Failure in Machiavelli’s Florentine Political Thought
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Mark Jurdjevic
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English
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2014
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Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli's contempt for Florence's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city's unrealized political potential.
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Jurdjevic Mark :
Mark Jurdjevic is Associate Professor of History at Glendon College, York University.
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Mark Jurdjevic's A Great and Wretched City is a wonderful contribution to Machiavelli studies. It gives Machiavelli's 'Florentine writings' their proper due, and appropriately tempers the ill-considered and much too prevalent overemphasis on Machiavelli's admiration for Rome. The book is astoundingly erudite, penetrating analytically, and generally written with a confident elegance that makes it an unusually accessible piece of high-end scholarship.
-- John P. McCormick, University of Chicago
-- John P. McCormick, University of Chicago
Jurdjevic convincingly argues that two of Machiavelli's late works, The Florentine Histories and Discourse on Florentine Affairs, constitute the culmination of a change in Machiavelli's political thinking beginning with the Discourses on Livy. Pessimistic about the potential for individual action, Machiavelli concludes that collective structures and institutions, purposely designed to limit the impact of individual political activity, can create and preserve republican government.
-- Ronald G. Witt, Duke University
-- Ronald G. Witt, Duke University
Wonderfully researched and deeply persuasive, this book offers us an entirely new vision of the Florentine chancellor as a man dedicated in his later years to radically reshaping his broken world. Jurdjevic not only reinterprets the man himself, but challenges our very understanding of the relationship between Renaissance individuals and the society around them.
-- Michael Martoccio H-Net Reviews
-- Michael Martoccio H-Net Reviews
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