{"product_id":"machiavelli-the-first-century","title":"Machiavelli - The First Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1513 and 1525 Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters.  One of these (the 'Arte della guerra') was published in 1521, but the rest of his major writings were not published until 1531-2, nearly five years after his death.  They continued to be reissued regularly, well into the early seventeenth century. The popularity of Machiavelli's books, the variety of his themes, the different\n\u003cbr\u003econtexts within which he was studied, the range of readers' interests, and the fact that his name entered the vocabulary of every European language - all make his early reception a fruitful field of enquiry.\n\u003cbr\u003e Historians of ideas have tended to tidy up the past in order to make it comprehensible but Sydney Anglo is concerned with heterogeneity, and with the often irrational and emotional aspects of sixteenth-century thought.  Basing his research entirely upon primary sources he quotes extensively in the conviction that, in a battle of words, the words themselves and their tone convey more than summaries of intellectual abstractions.  Authors - hostile, enthusiastic, and\n\u003cbr\u003eindifferent - are closely examined; and many different contexts, political and intellectual, are considered.  Sometimes Machiavelli was influential, sometimes not, but in this history of his reception,\n\u003cbr\u003esilences often prove significant. Written in a lively and trenchant style, this new interpretation of the impact of Machievalli is an original contribution of high quality by a leading expert in the field of Renaissance studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44086553018606,"sku":"9780199267767","price":535.15,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199267767.jpg?v=1706231584","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/machiavelli-the-first-century","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}