Machiavelli and Guicciardini : Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence (1965)

by Felix Gilbert

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In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

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Machiavelli e Guicciardini: pensiero politico e storiografia a Firenze nel Cinquecento

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Machiavelli and Guicciardini : politics and history in sixteenth-century Florence

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1965

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Niccolò Machiavelli

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Florence, Tuscany, Italy

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In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

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