
Published online:
19 October 2017
Published in print:
04 October 2016
Online ISBN:
9781400883516
Print ISBN:
9780691172231
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Chapter
VII Rome and Venice: A) Machiavelli’s Discorsi and Arte della Guerra
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183–218
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Published:October 2016
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Pocock, J.G.A., and Richard Whatmore, 'Rome and Venice: A) Machiavelli’s Discorsi and Arte della Guerra', The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, NJ , 2016; online edn, Princeton Scholarship Online, 19 Oct. 2017), https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691172231.003.0007, accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter turns to Machiavelli's Discorsi (Discourses on the first Ten Books of Livy, 1531) and his Arte della Guerra (The Art of War, 1521). Drawing from this volume's overall inquiry into the “Machiavellian moment,” the chapter turns to the concept of virtue, from which it distinguishes two meanings: one of which has something to do with time while the other has something to do with the Aristotelian concept of form. In both of Machiavelli's writings under discussion, both these concepts are brought together. Moreover, the chapter analyzes these two works using the same conceptual framework that was used to interpret Il Principe.
Keywords:
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi, Arte della Guerra, virtue, Il Principe, virtù, civic virtue, military virtue, Rome, Venice
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