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14Machiavelli: from radical to reactionaryHistory of European Ideas 49 (5): 903-905. 2023.In recent years, the persuasion that Niccolò Machiavelli was a cynical, irreligious devious, ambitious, deceitful, and misogynous man has been gaining remarkable consensus among scholars. The most...
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208Machiavelli and republicanism (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1990.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 lega…Read more
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6Redeeming "The prince": the meaning of Machiavelli's masterpiecePrinceton University Press. 2014.In Redeeming "The Prince," one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli also provides a fresh introduction to the work. Seen from this original perspective, five centuries after its composition, The Prince offers new insights into the nature and possibilities of polit…Read more
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Ch. 2. The Redeeming princeIn Timothy Fuller (ed.), Machiavelli's legacy: The Prince after five hundred years, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2016.
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Moral obligation and ethical pluralism in the research of juvalta, ErminioRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 41 (3): 543-569. 1986.
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3Republic and politics in Machiavelli and RousseauHistory of Political Thought 10 (3): 405-420. 1989.
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Patriottisme en Europese eenheidNexus 40. 2004.Een historische schets van het idee van patriottisme als verschillend van nationalisme. In patriottisme gaat het om liefde voor de eigen Staat waarin vrijheid heerst. Het project van een Europese federale Staat is mogelijk, zij het lastig, zelfs als er niet zoiets bestaat als een Europees volk of een Europese natie. Overigens zijn nationale culturen voor het Europese burgerschap geen bedreiging maar een bron van kracht.
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"Revisionisti" e "ortodossi" nella storia delle idee politicheRivista di Filosofia 78 (1): 121. 1987.
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37For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1995.Nationalism and patriotism are two of the most powerful forces shaping world history. In this paperback edition of a highly successful, wide-ranging study, Maurizio Viroli shows exactly why patriotism is a political virtue and nationalism a political vice.
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64MachiavelliOxford University Press. 1998.This book presents a critical examination of Machiavelli's thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with a reassessment of his central ideas and arguments. Viroli challenges the accepted interpretations of Machiavelli's work, insisting that his republicanism was based not on a commitment to virtue, greatness, and expansion, but to the ideal of civic life protected by the shield of fair laws. His detailed study of how Machiavelli composed The Prince offers a num…Read more
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Dovere morale e pluralismo etico nella ricerca di Erminio JuvaltaRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 41 (3): 543. 1986.
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L'etica Politica Ciceroniana E Il Suo Significato ModernoNuova Civiltà Delle Macchine 12 (1): 197-202. 1994.
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3Dalla politica alla ragion di stato: la scienza del governo tra XIII e XVII secoloDonzelli Editore. 1994.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'Well-Ordered Society'Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 53 (2): 360-361. 1991.
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23El sentido olvidado del patriotismo republicanoIsegoría 24 5-14. 2001.En este artículo Maurizio Viroli muestra que aunque el patriotismo republicano tiene una dimensión cultural es, sobre todo, una pasión política basada en la experiencia de la ciudadanía. Patriotismo es el amor por una república libre y por su forma de vida: il vivere libero. En este sentido, el patriotismo es casi lo opuesto al nacionalismo. Para los nacionalistas el patriotismo es el amor por una libertad más modesta: la libertad de disfrutar a la sombra del trono, y en paz, de la casita y el m…Read more
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Nella crisi del positivismo: la ricerca teorica del "Divenire sociale"Giornale Critico Della Filosofia Italiana 1 (1): 167. 1980.
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19How to read MachiavelliGranta. 2008.Niccolò Machiavelli is one of most influential modern political thinkers. His works, above all The prince, The discourses on Livy, The Florentine histories, and The art of war, are still passionately discussed in the intellectual community. Against the trite commonplace that Machiavelli was a teacher of evil who justified political immorality, Maurizio Viroli shows, on the basis of a rigorous study of his texts, that Machiavaelli taught instead the best way to attain true glory through political…Read more
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22Machiavelli's GodPrinceton University Press. 2010.The translation of this work has been funded by SEPS - Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche.
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54Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the "well-ordered society"Cambridge University Press. 1988.This book studies a central but hitherto neglected aspect of Rousseau's political thought: the concept of social order and its implications for the ideal society which he envisages. The antithesis between order and disorder is a fundamental theme in Rousseau's work, and the author takes it as the basis for this study. In contrast with a widely held interpretation of Rousseau's philosophy, Professor Viroli argues that natural and political order are by no means the same for Rousseau. He explores …Read more
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35On civic republicanism: Reply to Xenos and YackCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 12 (1-2): 187-196. 1998.Current debates about patriotism and nationalism have so far failed adequately to take into account the historical meaning of republican patriotism. For classical and modern republican theorists, love of country is a charitable love of the republic and of its citizens. It is an attachment to the political values of republican liberty and to the culture based upon them. As such, it is a theoretical alternative to both civic and ethnic nationalism, and it is not at all confined within the bygone e…Read more