History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
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- ~170.000 palabras · 803 pasajes
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- APAMaquiavelo. (n.d.). History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy
- MLAMaquiavelo. "History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
- ChicagoMaquiavelo. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
De qué trata
La historia de Florencia que Maquiavelo escribió entre 1520 y 1525, desde los orígenes hasta la muerte de Lorenzo el Magnífico.
Contexto e historia
La situación en que está escrita es lo que la hace singular: se la encargó el cardenal Julio de Médici, futuro papa Clemente VII, es decir la familia que siete años antes lo había hecho detener y torturar cuando volvieron al poder. Maquiavelo necesitaba el trabajo. El resultado es un libro que no miente pero que elige muy bien qué subraya, y leerlo sabiendo quién lo pagaba es parte de leerlo bien. La tesis de fondo es que las divisiones internas de Florencia no fueron un accidente sino su mecanismo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT By Niccolo Machiavelli With an Introduction by HUGO ALBERT RENNERT, Ph.D. Professor of Romanic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylvania. PREPARER'S NOTE This text was typed up from a Universal Classics Library edition, published in 1901 by W. Walter Dunne, New York and London. The translator was not named. The book contains a "photogravure" of Niccolo Machiavelli from an engraving. INTRODUCTION Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tuscan family, his father, who was a jurist, dying when Niccolo was sixteen years old. We know nothing of Machiavelli's youth and little about his studies. He does not seem to have received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew no Greek.[*] The first notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding the office of Secretary in the second Chancery of the Signoria, which office he retained till the downfall of the Florentine Republic in 1512. His unusual ability was soon recognized, and in 1500 he was sent on a mission to Louis XII. of France, and afterward on an embassy to Cæsar Borgia, the lord of Romagna, at Urbino. Machiavelli's report and description of this and subsequent embassies to this prince, shows his undisguised admiration for the courage and cunning of Cæsar, who was a master in the application of the principles afterwards exposed in such a skillful and uncompromising manner by Machiavelli in his _Prince_. The limits of this introduction will not permit us to follow with any detail the many important duties with which he was charged by his native state, all of which he fulfilled with the utmost fidelity and with consummate skill.…