Machiavelli
eBook - ePub

Machiavelli

A Life Beyond Ideology

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Machiavelli

A Life Beyond Ideology

About this book

NiccolĆ² di Bernardo Machiavelli is not only one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance, an outstanding author and statesman, but indisputably one of its most influential political theorists, whose fundamental contributions to ideas of political power - as well as to the history of modern drama - remain astonishingly pertinent. His adventurous life led him to notable heights as a diplomat and reformer of the Florentine military, with his replacement of mercenaries by a citizen-militia. His fall, exile and eventual rehabilitation followed as briskly as his rise. Unlike many innovative thinkers about politics, he developed his radical theories of treachery and social transformation, here explored in terms of their originality, in an atmosphere of violence. Based on his experience of government, his insights led to a shift from understanding statehood, war and society as forms of finitude and stasis to those of process. All this unfolds in Paul Oppenheimer's compelling recreation of Machiavelli's life as he actually lived it.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontispiece Map
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of illustrations
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Modern Evil and The Sack of Rome
  7. Machiavelli and the Changing Universe
  8. Family and Growing Up
  9. Early Education
  10. The Cosmic Package
  11. Poetry, Music and Militarism
  12. Murder in the Duomo
  13. A Boyhood Excursion
  14. The Lost Years
  15. Poetry and the Medici
  16. The Religious Revolution
  17. The World of War and Diplomacy
  18. Executions and an Official Appointment
  19. Caterina Sforza and the Crisis at Pisa
  20. The Military Quandary
  21. On the Move with the French King
  22. The Long French Patience
  23. Marriage and a Hint of Cesare Borgia
  24. Meeting the Captain-General
  25. Investigating the Sources of Power
  26. Retribution and Dominance
  27. Plans to Change the Arno
  28. The First Journey to Rome
  29. Cesareā€™s Downfall and the First Decennale
  30. Anarchy and the Citizen Militia
  31. The German Enigma
  32. Victory at Pisa
  33. A Government Overthrown
  34. Into a Tuscan Exile
  35. The Aftermath of Freedom
  36. Making History at Santā€™Andrea
  37. Power and Memory
  38. The Ambush of Love
  39. Literary Adventures
  40. Reflecting on the Craft of War
  41. The Dream of History
  42. Lights before the Storm
  43. The Assault on Rome and a Fatal Illness
  44. Epilogue: The Historical Afterglow
  45. Notes
  46. Bibliography