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Five hundred years after his death, Niccol Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence's free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A... Read More about On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics (Core Knowledge)

Five hundred years after his death, Niccol Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence's free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A... Read More about On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics (Core Knowledge)

Among 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 ... Read More about Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism

From plasma screens to smartphones, today moving images are everywhere. How have films adapted to this new environment? And how has the experience of the spectator changed because of this proliferation? In Broad Daylight investigates one of the decisive shifts in the history of Western aesthetics, e... Read More about In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectators After the Cinema