“A great desire to dominate”. Machiavelli and the greats
Abstract
After decades hegemonized by the Machiavelli of republicanism, many specialists have proposed a radical-popular interpretation of his thought. Accepting this reading requires a questioning of the way in which the role of the great has traditionally been interpreted in his work. In contrast to the nobility imagined by the humanists, which seemed to function as the guarantor of moderate republican order, Machiavelli understood that the elite was the main source of instability for institutions that had to be protected by the law and by the action of the popular stratum itself.
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