Diogo Pires Aurélio is professor emeritus at the Nova University of Lisbon. He specializes in the history of political thought, more specifically on Renaissance and early modern thinkers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes and Spinoza. Among his publications are the monographs O Mais Natural dos Regimes. Espinosa e a Democracia (Temas & Debates, 2014), Maquiavel & Herdeiros (Temas & Debates, 2012), Razão e violência (Prefácio, 2007) and the edited volumes Sovereign Justice (De Gruyter, 2011) and Terrorism. Politics, Religion and Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2011).Andre Santos Campos, Ph.D. (2009) is a research fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon. His research concentrates on issues that connect contemporary political theory with jurisprudence and intellectual history. He is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (Palgrave, 2012) and the editor of Challenges to Democratic Participation (Lexington, 2014), Spinoza: Basic Concepts (Imprint Academic, 2015), Spinoza and Law (Routledge, 2016), and Sovereignty as Value (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDiogo Pires Aurélio and Andre Santos Campos1 ‘A Never Again Attempted Work’: The Discourse-Form and the Discourses on LivyGabriele Pedullà2 Machiavelli and the Lingering Mystery of Polybius VICary J. Nederman3 Machiavelli on LibertyJ. Patrick Coby4 The Discourses on Livy: A ‘Commentary’ on the Effectual Truth of Civil ConflictMarie Gaille5 Republic and Constitution in Machiavelli’s DiscoursesFabio Raimondi6 The Modes Taken by Saint Gregory: Machiavelli and the Violence of Religious SectsMarco Geuna7 Machiavelli’s Republican Constituent PowerCamila Vergara8 Machiavelli and Thucydides on the Rhetoric of ImmoralismMiguel Vatter9 The ‘Discovery of the Masses’ and the Paradox of the FatherlandDiogo Pires Aurélio10 The Poison and the Sword: Conspiracies and Struggle for Power in Machiavelli’s Discourses on LivyAlessandro Campi11 The Political Economy of Machiavelli’s DiscoursesJérémie Barthas12 Politics of Porosity: War and Freedom in Machiavelli’s DiscoursesThomas Berns13 Guicciardini’s Considerations on the Discourses of MachiavelliMark JurdjevicIndex

Diogo Pires Aurélio is professor emeritus at the Nova University of Lisbon. He specializes in the history of political thought, more specifically on Renaissance and early modern thinkers such as Machiavelli, Hobbes and Spinoza. Among his publications are the monographs O Mais Natural dos Regimes. Espinosa e a Democracia (Temas & Debates, 2014), Maquiavel & Herdeiros (Temas & Debates, 2012), Razão e violência (Prefácio, 2007) and the edited volumes Sovereign Justice (De Gruyter, 2011) and Terrorism. Politics, Religion and Literature (Cambridge Scholars, 2011).Andre Santos Campos, Ph.D. (2009) is a research fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon. His research concentrates on issues that connect contemporary political theory with jurisprudence and intellectual history. He is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (Palgrave, 2012) and the editor of Challenges to Democratic Participation (Lexington, 2014), Spinoza: Basic Concepts (Imprint Academic, 2015), Spinoza and Law (Routledge, 2016), and Sovereignty as Value (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionDiogo Pires Aurélio and Andre Santos Campos1 ‘A Never Again Attempted Work’: The Discourse-Form and the Discourses on LivyGabriele Pedullà2 Machiavelli and the Lingering Mystery of Polybius VICary J. Nederman3 Machiavelli on LibertyJ. Patrick Coby4 The Discourses on Livy: A ‘Commentary’ on the Effectual Truth of Civil ConflictMarie Gaille5 Republic and Constitution in Machiavelli’s DiscoursesFabio Raimondi6 The Modes Taken by Saint Gregory: Machiavelli and the Violence of Religious SectsMarco Geuna7 Machiavelli’s Republican Constituent PowerCamila Vergara8 Machiavelli and Thucydides on the Rhetoric of ImmoralismMiguel Vatter9 The ‘Discovery of the Masses’ and the Paradox of the FatherlandDiogo Pires Aurélio10 The Poison and the Sword: Conspiracies and Struggle for Power in Machiavelli’s Discourses on LivyAlessandro Campi11 The Political Economy of Machiavelli’s DiscoursesJérémie Barthas12 Politics of Porosity: War and Freedom in Machiavelli’s DiscoursesThomas Berns13 Guicciardini’s Considerations on the Discourses of MachiavelliMark JurdjevicIndex