Istorie fiorentine
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~170.000 parole · 803 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAMachiavelli. (n.d.). History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy [Istorie fiorentine]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy
- MLAMachiavelli. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy [Istorie fiorentine]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
- ChicagoMachiavelli. History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy [Istorie fiorentine]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
La storia di Firenze che Machiavelli scrisse fra il 1520 e il 1525, dalle origini alla morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico.
Contesto e storia
La situazione in cui fu scritta ne fa la singolarità: gliela commissionò il cardinale Giulio de' Medici, futuro papa Clemente VII, cioè la famiglia che sette anni prima lo aveva fatto arrestare e torturare al proprio ritorno al potere. Machiavelli aveva bisogno dell'incarico. Ne esce un libro che non mente ma sceglie con molta cura che cosa sottolineare, e leggerlo sapendo chi pagava fa parte del leggerlo bene. La tesi di fondo è che le divisioni interne di Firenze non furono un incidente ma il suo meccanismo.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
a course which diminished his own power, and increased that of the barbarians. Nor was the island of Britain, which is now called England, secure from them; for the Britons, being apprehensive of those who had occupied Gaul, called the Angli, a people of Germany, to their aid; and these under Vortigern their king, first defended, and then drove them from the island, of which they took possession, and after themselves named the country England. But the inhabitants, being robbed of their home, became desperate by necessity and resolved to take possession of some other country, although they had been unable to defend their own. They therefore crossed the sea with their families, and settled in the country nearest to the beach, which from themselves is called Brittany. The Huns, who were said above to have occupied Pannonia, joining with other nations, as the Zepidi, Eurili, Turingi, and Ostro, or eastern Goths, moved in search of new countries, and not being able to enter France, which was defended by the forces of the barbarians, came into Italy under Attila their king. He, a short time previously, in order to possess the entire monarchy, had murdered his brother Bleda; and having thus become very powerful, Andaric, king of the Zepidi, and Velamir, king of the Ostrogoths, became subject to him. Attila, having entered Italy, laid siege to Aquileia, where he remained without any obstacle for two years, wasting the country round, and dispersing the inhabitants. This, as will be related in its place, caused the origin of Venice. After the taking and ruin of Aquileia, he directed his course towards Rome, from the destruction of which he abstained at the entreaty of the pontiff, his respect for whom was so great that he left Italy and retired into Austria, where he died.…