Athanasios Moulakis is director of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies,University of Lugano, Switzerland.

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Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin are two thinkers who seem to have much in common, yet they provide markedly different interpretations of Machiavelli. A comparison of their views on such a distinctive figure in the history of political thought reveals fundamental differences of philosophical outlook and scholarly temperament even as it occasions a re-examination of the 'enigma' of Machiavelli himself.key words: emigré intellectuals, gnosis and modernity, Machiavelli, philosophy and the city, realism and dissimulation

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