9780691076614 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $49.50 |
About this edition: Hulliung's Citizen Machiavelli argues that Machiavelli's embrace of fraud and violence cannot take cover behind Italian patriotism or a concern with the common good--and that Machiavelli uses and abuses history in the service of his mythical intent He is a republican imperialist, embracing the heroic pagan virtues and consciously subverting the humanistic tradition of Cicero and the religious morality of Christianity by an intentionally skewed interpretation of republican Rome.
9781412854054 | Transaction Pub, September 30, 2014, cover price $34.95 |
About this edition: Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that moral ends sometimes require immoral means.