"Gli umori delle parti" : humoral dynamics and democratic potential in the Florentine Histories

• Main Author: Holman, Christopher
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science::Political theory; Democracy; Equality
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145149
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this essay I consider the potential of Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories to contribute to the enrichment of contemporary democratic theory. In opposition to both of the major groups of current interpreters of this text—those who see it as representative of a conservative turn in Machiavelli’s th...