Machiavelli's Gospel: The Critique of Christianity in the Prince

by William B. Parsons

Recent scholarship on The Prince interprets the classic work in the context of Machiavelli's sixteenth-century Italy, but this scholarship neglects the source on which the moral and political world of the sixteenth century was based, the Christian Bible. In this study of The Prince, William Parsons plumbs Machiavelli's allusions to the Bible, along with his statements on the church, and shows that Machiavelli was a careful reader of the Bible and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464912
• ISBN13: 9781580464918
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"