Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Abbreviations for Machiavelli’s Writings xi
4. Introduction. Vulgarity and Virtuosity 1
5. Part I
6. 1. The Passion of Duke Valentino: Cesare Borgia, Biblical Allegory, and The Prince 21
7. 2. “Keep the Public Rich and the Citizens Poor”: Economic Inequality and Political Corruption in the Discourses 45
8. 3. On the Myth of a Conservative Turn in the Florentine Histories 69
9. Part II
10. 4. Rousseau’s Repudiation of Machiavelli’s Democratic Roman Republic 109
11. 5. Leo Strauss’s Machiavelli and the Querelle between the Few and the Many 144
12. 6. The Cambridge School’s “Guicciardinian Moments” Revisited 176
13. Summation. Scandalous Writings, Dubious Readings, and the Virtues of Popular Empowerment 207
14. Notes 215
15. Acknowledgments 255
16. Index 257
17. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 273