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Mikael
Hornqvist.
Machiavelli and Empire.
Cambridge University Press, due September 2004.
316pp.
Hardback.
ISBN 0521839459.
Publisher's
recommended price c. £45
Mikael
Hörnqvist challenges us to rethink the overall meaning and
importance of Machiavelli's political thinking. Machiavelli and Empire combines
close textual analysis of The Prince
and The Discourses with a
broad historical approach, to establish the importance of
empire-building and imperial strategy in Machiavelli’s thought. The
primary context of Machiavelli's work, Hörnqvist argues, is not
the mirror-for-princes genre or medieval and Renaissance republicanism
in general, but a tradition of Florentine imperialist republicanism
dating back to the late thirteenth-century, based on the twin notions
of liberty at home and empire abroad. Weaving together themes and
topics drawn from contemporary Florentine political debate, Medicean
ritual and Renaissance triumphalism, this study explores how
Machiavelli in his chancery writings and theoretical works promoted the
long standing aspirations of Florence to become a great and expanding
empire, modelled on the example of the ancient Roman republic.
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