The Machiavellian moment : Florentine political thought and the Atlantic republican tradition

<h3>Contents</h3> <pre> Introduction..................................................................................................vii I The Problem and Its Modes A) Experience, Usage and Prudence................................................3 II The Problem and Its Modes B) Providence, Fortune and Virtue...............................................31 III The Problem and Its Modes c) The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile.......................................49 IV From Bruni to Savonarola Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse...................................................83 V The Medicean Restoration A) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516................................114 VI The Medicean Restoration B) Machiavelli's II Principe.....................................................156 VII Rome and Venice A) Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra..........................................183 VIII Rome and Venice B) Guicciardini's Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence..........................219 IX Giannotti and Contarini Venice as Concept and as Myth.....................................................272 X The Problem of English Machiavellism Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War.....................333 XI The Anglicization of the Republic A) Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen................................361 XII The Anglicization of the Republic B) Court, Country and Standing Army....................................401 XIII Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy The Augustan Debate over Land, Trade and Credit.....................423 XIV The Eighteenth-Century Debate Virtue, Passion and Commerce...............................................462 XV The Americanization of Virtue Corruption, Constitution and Frontier.......................................506 Afterword.....................................................................................................553 Bibliography..................................................................................................585 Index.........................................................................................................601 </pre>