PROBLEMATIZING ?IL PRINCIPE?

Whilst he was writing De principatibus, was Machiavelli really as out of touch with the Florentine politico-institutional world as h is letter of December 1513 claims? Who read Il principe prior to its publication, and how? Why did the philosopher Agostino Nifo, on e of the major proponents of renaissance Averroism, plagiarize it? To what extent is the Machiavellian principato civile comprehensi ble only by way of its Medicean and Florentine affiliation? Did the young Lorenzo de' Medici's political programme seek to eliminate the Rom...[Read more]