TY  - BOOK
AU  - Viroli, Maurizio
TI  - Machiavelli`s God
SN  - 9780691124148
U1  - N44 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction ...1  1. The republican religion ...2  2. Machiavelli the puritan ...11  3. Machiavelli`s prophecy ...20  Chapter one : His god ...27  1. The soul and the fatherland ...27  2. Republican christianity ...43  3. Machiavelli and the religion of virtue ...61  4. Moral and religious reform ...75  Chapter two  The power of words ...89  1. Rhetoric and civil religion ...89  2. Machiavelli orator ...99  3. Creator of myths ...109  4. His finest piece of oratory ..122  5. Republican eloquence and wisdom ...134  Chapter three The republic and its religion ...154  1. Republican government and religion ...154  2. The religion of liberty ...170  3. Customs and religion ...177  4. Religion, war, and social conflict ...185  5. The reform of orders and the reform of customs ...198  Chapter four Machiavelli and the religious and moral reformation of italy ...208  1. Hersy and asperations for religious reform ...211  2. The difficulties of survival in counter reformation italy ...232  3. The redemption of italy and the idea of moral reform in the writers of the eighteenth century ...247  4. The risorgimento and the religion of liberty ...263  Index ...295
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