Humanism, Technic and Profession in Machiavelli’s Art of War.
Abstract
A good part of the interpretations of Machiavelli’s Art of War had dealt with the tension between letters and arms, theory and practice, technical experience and erudite and humanist knowledge, Medieval and Modern trends. Machiavelli’s work was composed in a period of strong transitions, at the dawn of what has come to be called the Early Modern Military Revolution. The notion of “military humanism” seems a reasonable starting point for understanding a text which, indeed, developed a certain literary complexity and contained undeniable classicist traces, but which, at the same time, attempted to make sense of the experience of “modern things”.
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