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Mark Jurdjevic
Great and Wretched City [EPUB ebook]
Promise and Failure in Machiavelli s Florentine Political Thought

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Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli’s political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli’s contempt for Florence’s shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city’s unrealized political potential.

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格式 EPUB ● 网页 305 ● ISBN 9780674368996 ● 出版者 Harvard University Press ● 发布时间 2014 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2952164 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM

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