Histoire de Florence
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Texte propre
- Étendue:
- ~170 000 mots · 803 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAMachiavel. (n.d.). Histoire de Florence. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy
- MLAMachiavel. "Histoire de Florence." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
- ChicagoMachiavel. Histoire de Florence. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
De quoi il s'agit
L'histoire de Florence que Machiavel écrivit entre 1520 et 1525, des origines à la mort de Laurent le Magnifique.
Contexte et histoire
La situation où elle fut écrite en fait la singularité : elle lui fut commandée par le cardinal Jules de Médicis, futur pape Clément VII, c'est-à-dire par la famille qui, sept ans plus tôt, l'avait fait arrêter et torturer à son retour au pouvoir. Machiavel avait besoin du travail. Il en résulte un livre qui ne ment pas mais choisit très bien ce qu'il souligne ; le lire en sachant qui payait fait partie de le bien lire. La thèse de fond est que les divisions internes de Florence ne furent pas un accident mais son mécanisme.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le 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.…