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Main description: Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Medici.

Mark Jurdjevic focuses on the Florentine dimension of Machiavelli's political thought, revealing new aspects of his republican convictions. Through The Prince, Discourses, correspondence, and, most substantially, Florentine Histories, Jurdjevic examines Machiavelli's political career and relationships to the republic and the Medici.

Throughout his life, Niccolò Machiavelli's overriding central concerns were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. Presenting a wide sample of the many genres in which he wrote, this volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations.

Ch. 1. Early letters, poems, and military writings (1498-1513) -- ch. 2. Excerpts from The Prince (1513-15) -- ch. 3. Excerpts from Discourses on Livy (1512-17) -- ch. 4. The Mandrake (1518) -- ch. 5. Articles for a Pleasure Company (post-1504) -- ch. 6. Belfagor (1524) -- ch. 7. Excerpts from The Art of War (1519-20) -- ch. 8. Allocution to a Magistrate (1519-20) -- ch. 9. Discourse on Florentine Affairs After the Death of Lorenzo (1520-1521) -- ch. 10. Midcareer letters (1517-24) -- ch. 11. Duties of an Ambassador (1522) -- ch. 12. Excerpts from the Florentine Histories (1525) -- ch. 13. Late letters (1525-27).

"This volume celebrates the considerable contributions of Edward Muir to the history of Renaissance Italy and early modern Europe. In keeping with Muir's signature interdisciplinary approach to history, the fifteen essays in this volume include contributions on the ritual dimensions of early modern politics, religion, literature, and art and range from the Venetian and Florentine capitals of Renaissance high culture to Germany, Spain, the Low Countries, and China. Janus-faced, like all good historians, the volume looks forward and back, combining distinguished senior scholars and new voices with venerable debates and new fields. In doing so, the collection testifies to the vibrancy, vitality, and significance of early modern studies today and the degree to which Muir's scholarship over the past thirty years has powerfully fueled the field's dynamism."--