Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedull - 9781107177277

Machiavelli in TumultThe Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism\nAuthor(s): Gabriele Pedull\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107177277, 978-1107177277\nSynopsis\nAmong the theses that for centuries have ensured Niccol Machiavelli an ambiguous fame, a special place goes to his extremely positive opinion of social conflicts, and, more in particular, to the claim that in ancient Rome 'the disunion between the plebs and the Roman senate made that republic free and powerful' (Discourses on Livy [url] Contrary to a long tradition that had always highly valued civic concord, Machiavelli thought that - at least under certain conditions - internecine discord could be a source of strength and not of weakness, and built upon this daring proposition an original vision of political order. Machiavelli in Tumult (originally published in Italian in 2011) is the first book-length study e.