A great and wretched city promise and failure in Machiavelli's Florentine political thought / Mark Jurdjevic.

SeriesI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
Contents Introduction : the Florentine question -- The Savonarolan lens -- Roman doubts -- Nobles and noble culture in the Florentine histories -- A new view of the people -- The Albizzi regime in the Florentine histories -- The virtues and vices of Medici power in the Florentine histories -- The failure of Florentine institutions -- Conclusion : Machiavelli's republican realism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-284) and index.
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LCCN 2013026743
ISBN9780674725461 (alk. paper)