Istorie fiorentine
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito
- Estensione:
- ~170.000 parole · 803 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAMachiavelli. (n.d.). Istorie fiorentine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy
- MLAMachiavelli. "Istorie fiorentine." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
- ChicagoMachiavelli. Istorie fiorentine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/machiavelli/history-of-florence-and-of-the-affairs-of-italy.
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.
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.…