The power of “wealth, nobility and men:” Inequality and corruption in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories

European Journal of Political Theory 19 (4):512-531 (2017)
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This article draws a connection between socio-economic inequality and political corruption based on a reading of Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories. Prevailing interpretations of the Histories attr...

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Civil Discord in Machiavelli's Istorie Fiorentine.Gisela Bock - 1990 - In Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner & Maurizio Viroli (eds.), Machiavelli and republicanism. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 181--201.

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