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Machiavelli: Republics
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The Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli was one of Savonarola's sharpest critics, but he was ... like him, a precursor of modern ideologists. Historians who speak of him only as an immoralist overlook the extent to which Machiavelli was a man with an ideal—a republican ideal.
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The sole Roman source of Machiavelli's information on the Roman Republic was Livy and this is the basis of Machiavelli's error. Prof. Michael Crawford writes that Livy is "following the common opinion of his day; the truth, if different, is irrecoverable."[10]
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Machiavelli's public career came about with the ascendancy of Savonarola in 1492. Machiavelli became a disciple of Savanarola. Savonarola was hanged in 1498 and Machiavelli was appointed as the head of of the second chancery with the new republic.
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The formation of the modern definition of the form of republic came from Machiavelli who got it from Livy. Livy was deficient in general political studies and in Roman constitutional knowledge. He was no political scientist of any measure.
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Now in paperback, this highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world’s foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli’s political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other republicans. An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (notably law, philosophy, history and the history of political thought) explore both the immediate Florentine context in which Machiavelli wrote, and the republican legacy to which he contributed.
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