Machiavelli in Tumult

Gabriele Pedull... is professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Rome 3 and has been visiting professor at Stanford, University of California, Los Angeles, and the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at 'Villa I Tatti', the Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance, Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, and Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University. In English he has published In Broad Daylight. Movies and Spectators after the Cinema (2012) and many essays on Renaissance political thought. With Sergio Luzzatto, he edited a three volume Atlante della letteratura italiana (2010-12). His new edition and commentary on Machiavelli's Prince (2013) is forthcoming in English and is under translation in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is also the author of two prizewinning fiction books: the collection of short stories Lo spagnolo senza sforzo (2009: partially translated into English), and the novel Lame (2017, forthcoming in English as Blades).

Review of Italian edition: 'Gabriele Pedullà has written a masterful book. … A short review cannot begin to do justice to the author's astonishing command of two millennia of primary sources and a vast array of modern scholarship or to the new light these essays shed on both Machiavelli and the long history of the questions he addressed. In deepening the understanding of Machiavelli's polemical engagement with assumptions inherited from antiquity and fifteenth-century humanists, this book merits comparison with the magisterial studies of Gennaro Sasso; and in analyzing the complex responses, positive and negative, to Machiavelli's ideas over the next several centuries, it similarly deserves comparison with the overarching narratives of the history of political thought of Quentin Skinner and JGA Pocock. … Pedullà's stimulating book opens new vistas and enriches familiar questions. In a time of immense vitality in Machiavelli studies, it should top the reading lists of all scholars in the field.' John M. Najemy, Renaissance Quarterly

• Introduction; 1. Concordia parvae res crescunt: the humanistic backdrop; 2. 'A necessary inconvenience': the demystification of political concord; 3. Fear and virtue: the rebuttal to humanistic pedagogy; 4. 'The guard of liberty': the rejection of Aristotelian balance; 5. 'Giving the foreigners citizenship': an expansionist republicanism; 6. Dionysius' reappearance: the classical roots of modern conflictualism; 7. Remembering the conflict: Machiavelli's legacy.