On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics

by Gabriele Pedullà

Five hundred years after his death, Niccol Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence's free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A Renaissance humanist? A prophet of Italian unification? A theorist of mixed government? A forerunner to authoritarianism? The master of the dark arts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231205554
• ISBN13: 9780231205559
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"