Machiavelli's Florentine Republic

What do modern republics have to fear? Machiavelli''s Florentine Republic reconstructs Machiavelli''s answer to this question from the perspective of the Florentine Histories, his most probing meditation on the fate of republican politics in the modern age. It argues that his principle goal in narrating the defeat of Florentine republicanism is to debunk the views of leading humanists concerning t...