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The Many and the Few: Machiavelli and Guicciardini's Critique of Aristocratic Regimes (Toronto Italian Studies) - Hardcover

Buch 112 von 113: Toronto Italian Studies

Jurdjevic, Mark

 
9781487566869: The Many and the Few: Machiavelli and Guicciardini's Critique of Aristocratic Regimes (Toronto Italian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1487566867 ISBN 13: 9781487566869
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2026

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The Many and the Few reconstructs a pattern of recurring populist themes in the writings of Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolò Machiavelli. These two pioneering thinkers of the late Renaissance are almost always presented in terms of dramatic contrasts - while Machiavelli's violent populism and scorn for aristocratic culture is well established, many consider Guicciardini the most influential Renaissance advocate of narrow, elitist regimes. In The Many and the Few, Mark Jurdjevic challenges these pre-existing beliefs and argues that Guicciardini was a vastly more complex thinker who subjected his own aristocratic ideals to devastating scrutiny.
From his very first to very last texts, Guicciardini consistently embedded an alternate narrative in which he thoroughly embraced, and arguably exceeded, Machiavelli's view of the innately positive qualities of the people and destructive qualities of the elites. Subsequent "republican" writers, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James Madison, all claimed Guicciardini as one of the chief Renaissance exemplars of a longstanding tradition of aristocratic, senatorial politics, but The Many and the Few demonstrates that Guicciardini's contribution was a Trojan horse: it appeared to confirm this tradition even while affirming every aspect of Machiavelli's critique.

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Mark Jurdjevic is professor of history at York University and studies early modern Europe.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487566867
ISBN 13 
9781487566869
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256
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