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The Rope and the Chains - Machiavelli’s Early Thought and Its Transformations (Hardcover)
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The Rope and the Chains - Machiavelli’s Early Thought and Its Transformations (Hardcover)
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Niccolò Machiavelli counts among the most famous (and infamous)
political authors in the history of Western political thought,
primarily on account of his book the Prince. Before he wrote that
notorious treatise, however, he served for fourteen years as a
prominent and active civil administrator in the government of the
Republic of Florence. Removed from office in 1512, following a
take-over by the Medici dynasty that had ruled the city during much
of the fifteenth century, Machiavelli was incarcerated and tortured
as a result of unsubstantiated accusations of his involvement in a
coup plot. Soon after his release from prison, he composed the
Prince, which is generally seen to constitute the beginning of his
career as a political theorist as well as a comic playwright, poet
and military analyst of note. Yet little attention has been devoted
to the large body of writings—in the form of prose and poetry, as
well as the hundreds of pages of diplomatic and personal
correspondence—that he produced in the course of his public
service. In an unprecedented interpretation, The Rope and the
Chains carefully examines the neglected pre-Prince texts in order
to frame his later theories. The book reveals that Machiavelli’s
thought prior to the Prince was largely conventional when judged by
the standards of his day. At the same time, it also demonstrates
his dissatisfaction with the intellectual worldview in which he was
enmeshed. Machiavelli “became” Machiavelli once liberated from
the rope and the chains by which centuries of tradition had
constrained him.
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