The Humanist Concept of the Prince and the Prince of Machiavelli

¿Príncipes o tiranos? La 'Ciropedia' de Jenofonte, la monarquía aqueménida y los 'specula principum' de la modernidad (siglo XVI)

“…Strauss 2005, 44-45. 31 Luccioni 1947Newell 1983;Tatum 1989;Due 1989;Gera 1993;Nadon 2001. 32 "Un de ces agents de propagande au service de Sparte" (Luccioni 1947, 160 la España del siglo XVI, debemos en primer lugar detallar qué ofrecían la Ciropedia y la obra de Jenofonte 38 a los teóricos de la filosofía política del siglo XVI como fuente de inspiración para sus specula principum.…”

Machiavelli’s The Prince as a Satire: An Exploratory Look at Machiavelli’s Works to Determine His True Political Inclinations

“…This short pamphlet was written in the -mirror of the princes‖ style common at the time but seems to ridicule the genre rather fit into it. 13 It advises Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, to whom the work was dedicated, on how to obtain and maintain power. Machiavelli focuses on new principalities, won by arms, fortune, or virtue.…”

Machiavelli's Unchristian Charity

“…27 For comparisons of the teachings of chapters 16 and 17 with those of other Renaissance writers on their respective subjects see A. Gilbert (1968)-who, unfortunately, tends to miss the forest for the trees-and F. Gilbert (1939).…”

“…ls On the character and thoroughness of Machiavelli's rupture with both antiquity and Christianity, and therefore with the thought of his day, see Cherel (1930, pp. 17-29); F. Gilbert (1939Gilbert ( , not 1965; Strauss (1958); Flanagan (1972, pp. 142-46); Rousseau (1973, pp.…”