Machiavelli's God / Maurizio Viroli ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

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Viroli, Maurizio

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 310 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400835034
1400835038
9780691154497
069115449X

Uniform titles:

Dio di Machiavelli e il problema morale dell'Italia. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Machiavelli's God.DDC classification:

172 22

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JC143.M4 V5213 2010eb

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Contents:

MACHIAVELLI'S GOD; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE -- HIS GOD; CHAPTER TWO -- THE POWER OF WORDS; CHAPTER THREE -- THE REPUBLIC AND ITS RELIGION; CHAPTER FOUR -- MACHIAVELLI AND THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL REFORMATION OF ITALY; INDEX.

Summary: To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, thought it was crucial to republican social and political renewal--but that first it needed to be renewed itself. And without understanding this, Viroli contends, it is impossible to comprehend Machiavelli's thought.

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To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in Machiavelli's God, Maurizio Viroli, one of the world's leading authorities on Machiavelli, argues that Machiavelli, far from opposing Christianity, thought it was crucial to republican social and political renewal--but that first it needed to be renewed itself. And without understanding this, Viroli contends, it is impossible to comprehend Machiavelli's thought.

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