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Andrea Guidi - Books, People, and Military Thought, Inbunden

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Books, People, and Military Thought

Machiavelli’s Art of War and the Fortune of the Militia in Sixteenth-Century Florence and Europe

Av Andrea Guidi

Del 3 i serien Thinking in Extremes

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Beskrivning
How did the evolution of new gunpowder weapons change the nature, structure and composition of the Florentine militias during the first decades of the sixteenth century? Through an examination of little-known and unpublished sources, this book provides a comparative exploration of two Florentine republican experiments with a peasant militia: one promoted and created by Niccolò Machiavelli (1506–12) and a later one (1527–30). Using this comparison as the basis for a new reading of Machiavelli’s Art of War (which drew on the author's experience with the militia), the book then investigates the relationship between the circulation and reception of Machiavelli’s influential work, changing conceptions of militia, and the formation of new cultures of warfare in Europe in the sixteenth century.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-06-18
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 592 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Thinking in Extremes
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004432093
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Andrea Guidi, Ph.D. (Florence, 2008), is Assegnista at the Università dell’Insubria and Associate Member of the SFB 1015 Muße, Freiburg. Co-editor of both Machiavelli’s diplomatic and private correspondence, his archive-based monograph and articles on Machiavelli and the history of archives use long-overlooked documents.

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"Guidi challenges traditional views that Machiavelli was an idealist who believed that reviving Roman civic virtues would stimulate Italian patriotism and drive the foreigners out of Italy; his research into the years 1527–30 shows that Machiavelli's proposed reforms had practical goals and were widely influential.""Well written, with numerous letters (in Italian) in the appendix, this book will be widely cited in future publications about Machiavelli."W. L. Urban, emeritus, Monmouth College (IL), in CHOICE Connect, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries

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