Machiavelli in Hell - Softcover
Convinced that a good political leader or "prince new" would have to engage in acts of cruelty and bad faith, Machiavelli faces a predicament: how to justify this evil to prospective leaders themselves and to people at large. This study offers an exploration of how he penetrated this difficulty. Telling the story of Machiavelli's childhood and period of personal crisis following his imprisonment, the author turns to "The Prince", and uses the facts of biography to illuminate how Machiavelli's ideas gathered power and came together to form a unified vision of humankind and the world.
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"Machiavelli in Hell is both monumental and intimate, provocative and winning. . . . [De Grazia's] own style is pithy, sinewy, vigoroustaut and relaxed by turns: not unlike Niccol's. His Machiavelli is complex, brilliant, attractive, at times profound."--Thomas D'Evelyn, The Christian Science Monitor
"Machiavelli in Hell is a living portrait of a man. . . . At last we see Machiavelli in the midst of his contemporaries, rather than in the midst of our more or less fixed (and prejudiced) ideas about him. . . . An extraordinary work, written, as Machiavelli would say, 'divinely'."--La Repubblica
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"Machiavelli in Hell is a living portrait of a man. . . . At last we see Machiavelli in the midst of his contemporaries, rather than in the midst of our more or less fixed (and prejudiced) ideas about him. . . . An extraordinary work, written, as Machiavelli would say, 'divinely'."--La Repubblica
"Sebastian de Grazia has written a remarkable book which is both a life and work blended together, an illuminating reconstruction of Machiavelli's thought within the context of his times. He achieves an unprecedented sense of intimacy with his subject, and turns the demonic 'Machiavel' into the very human 'Niccol,' whose ideas are seen to arise so naturally from the world of his experiences and feelings. It is a model of how intellectual biography should be done."--Joseph Frank
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- Publication date1996
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- ISBN 13 9780333633311
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