Citizen Machiavelli

By Mark Hulliung

Book Overview

Hulliung's Citizen Machiavelli argues that Machiavelli's embrace of fraud and violence cannot take cover behind Italian patriotism or a concern with the common good--and that Machiavelli uses and abuses history in the service of his mythical intent He is a republican imperialist, embracing the heroic pagan virtues and consciously subverting the humanistic tradition of Cicero and the religious morality of Christianity by an intentionally skewed interpretation of republican Rome.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691076618
• ISBN13: 9780691076614
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.0"