Western Political Thought

Chapter 5

1. Quentin Skinner, Chapter 1 in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Volume 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

2. Quentin Skinner, ‘Machiavelli’s Discorsi and the Pre-Humanist Origins of Republican Ideas’, in Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli (eds), Machiavelli and Republicanism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 121.

3. See F. Gilbert, Chapter 1 in Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1965.

4. For some of these details, see John G. A. Pocock, Chapter 4 in The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1975.

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