Poli 212 History of Western Political Philosophy Professor Sammy Basu

Introduction to Machiavelli and The Prince and the Discourses

CONTEXT

Il Rinascimento - The Renaissance

Italy and Northern Europe during the Renaissance, ca 1250-1600

'The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy' by Jacob Burckhardt from 1878,

. The State as a Work of Art, 

. The Development of the Individual, 

. The Revival of Antiquity, 

. The Discovery of the World and of Man, 

. Society and Festivals, 

. Morality and Religion.  

Context

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/map6.jpg

War

Florence

More pictures of Florence

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/overview.html

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/florence_scene_big.gif

http://www.florin.ms/florencemap.html

http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/Machiavelli/Florence/MachiavelliFlorence.htm

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/08/eustc/ht08eustc.htm

AUTHOR

Portrait of "Machiavelli." Ca. 1500.

Niccolò Machiavelli
A portrait by Ante Wessels - 80 x 90 cm, oil/linen, 1995

Machiavellian(ism)