Machiavelli's God
The title of the original Italian edition of Maurizio Viroli's book, Il Dio di Machiavelli e il problema morale dell'Italia (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2005), reveals more of its purpose and spirit than the shortened version preferred for this translation. Publisher and author may have assumed th...
| Published in: | A journal of church and state |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
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| Summary: | The title of the original Italian edition of Maurizio Viroli's book, Il Dio di Machiavelli e il problema morale dell'Italia (Rome-Bari: Laterza, 2005), reveals more of its purpose and spirit than the shortened version preferred for this translation. Publisher and author may have assumed that anglophone readers would be more interested in Machiavelli's ideas about religion than in how those ideas, as Viroli contends, have served and might still serve as an antidote to what he calls “the weakness of the civil and moral conscience of the Italians” (p. ix)., This book has two chief arguments. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr101 |