The Machiavellian cosmos /

In this highly original interpretation of Machiavelli's thought, Anthony J. Parel identifies a theme generally neglected in the scholarship on this sixteenth-century political thinker: Machiavelli's belief in the occult forces of heaven and humours. Challenging the current tendency to view...

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Autor principal: Parel, Anthony (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New Haven : Yale University Press 1992.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dszz6h
Taula de continguts:
  • 1. The astrological debate
  • 2. Heaven, history, and politics
  • 3. Heaven, religion, and politics
  • 4. Fortune
  • 5. Virtù
  • 6. Humours
  • 7. The Prince
  • 8. The Discourses
  • 9. Humours and licenzia.