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Book SynopsisGabriele Pedullà—a leading Italian expert and acclaimed writer—provides a vivid and engaging introduction to Machiavelli’s life and works that sheds new light on his originality and relevance.
Trade ReviewAmong the many books one could read on Machiavelli over the last decades, this one strongly stands out. Eloquently written, incisively argued, and with a view on the past and the present, Pedullà succeeds in elaborating both the many merits and multiple flaws, the attractiveness and the perilousness of the theoretical work this Italian thinker and statesman bequeathed to us. Everyone interested in the energy room of politics should definitely read this brilliant book. -- Axel Honneth, Jack B. Weinstein Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University
Pedullà's
On Niccolo Machiavelli will stand as the single most important introductory study of Machiavelli in any language. Covering biographical details and historical context as well as offering concise and astute analyses of Machiavelli's major writings, it is a work of great insight, depth, and originality. -- John P. McCormick, author of
Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist PoliticsAn immensely rich analysis of Machiavelli’s achievement that integrates his political and literary writings with his life and view of religion. More than that, it goes on to explain his contested legacy from the time of his death to his present relevance today, making it quite unrivaled in its scope and appeal to a global and multifocused readership. -- Alison Brown, author of
Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance ItalyPedulla’s book serves as an excellent primer for Machiavelli’s work, offering the key through which to interpret his most controversial ideas. * ZME Science *
But even grizzled veterans will find interest in Pedullà’s portrait of the Secretary as a political animal who was also a non-conformist and a critic of conventional wisdom. * Claremont Review of Books *
Table of ContentsPreface: The Thinker of a Thousand Faces
1. From Humanism to Politics
2. The People’s Prince
3. In the Garden with the Romans
4. Comeback Kid
5. Beyond
Chronology
Further Readings
Index
