Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

x, 316 p. ; 23 cm.

Ideas in context ; 18

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machiavelli and Florentine republican experience / Nicolai Rubinstein -- Machiavelli and the crisis of the Italian republics / Elena Fasano Guarini -- Florentine republicanism in the early sixteenth century / Giovanni Silvano -- Machiavelli, servant of the Florentine republic / Robert Black -- The controversy surrounding Machiavelli's service to the republic / John M. Najemy -- Machiavelli's Discorsi and the pre-humanist origins of republican ideas / Quentin Skinner -- Machiavelli and the republican idea of politics / Maurizio Viroli -- The theory and practice of warfare in Machiavelli's republic / Michael Mallett -- Civil discord in Machiavelli's Istorie Fiorentine / Gisela Bock.

The Machiavellian moment and the Dutch Revolt : the rise of neostoicism and Dutch republicanism / Martin van Gelderen -- Milton's republicanism and the tyranny of heaven / Blair Worden -- A controversial republican : Dutch views of Machiavelli in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Eco Haitsma Mulier -- Montesquieu and the new republicanism / Judith Shklar -- The ethos of the republic and the reality of politics / Werner Maihofer -- The republican ideal of political liberty / Quentin Skinner.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.

Republicanism -- Italy -- Florence -- History -- 16th century.

Florence (Italy) -- Politics and government -- 1421-1737.

Republicanism.

Bock, Gisela, 1942-

Skinner, Quentin.

Viroli, Maurizio.

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