Machiavelli and Empire.(Book review) From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Mikael Hornqvist. Machiavelli and Empire.

Ideas in Context 71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 302 pp. index. $75. ISBN: 0-521-83945-9.

At the heart of Hornqvist's Machiavelli and Empire lies the important idea that the distinction between principalities and republics announced in the first chapter of Machiavelli's Prince has prevented scholars from appreciating fully the revolutionary endorsement of empire to be found in the Florentine's treatment of both kinds of regime. Thus, in a break with the usual Prince/Discourses dichotomy, Hornqvist does an ...

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