Mark Jurdjevic
Autor von Guardians of Republicanism: The Valori Family in the Florentine Renaissance
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For me the highlights proved to be the brief glimpses of The Prince; the brutally candid Discourses on Livy; the tongue-in-cheek Belfagor and the quintessential The Art of War.
Machiavelli's name has become an epithet for all forms of cunning malaise. But the man who Jurdjevic and Ray flesh out based on his own words (a triumph of commonsense historiography) emerges as a humanist as well as a realist seeking the betterment of his people and the acolytes of his works.
A grandly immersive read with much life advise to offer. Truly, Machiavelli guides across the ages.… (mehr)