Inclui índice e bibliografia

Part one. Particularity and time. The conceptual background I. The problem and its modes -- a) Experience, usage and prudence II. The problem and its modes -- b) Providence, fortune and virtue III. The problem and its modes -- c) The vita activa and the vivere civile Part Two. The republic and its fortune -- Florentine political thought 1494 to 1530 IV. From bruni to savonarola -- Fortune, venice and apocalypse V. The Medicean restoration -- a) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516 VI. The Medicean restoration -- b) Machiavelli's ll Principe VII. Rome and venice -- a) Machiavelli's discorsi and arte della guerra VIII. Rome and Venice -- b) Guicciadini's dialogo and the problem of optimate prudence IX. Giannotti and Contarini -- Venice as concept and as Myth Part Three. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic X. The problem of english machiavellism -- Modes of civic consciousness before the civil war XI. The anglicization of the republic -- a) Mixed constituition, saint and citizen XII. The anglicization of th republic -- b) Court, country and standing army XIII. Neo-Machiavellian political economy -- The augustan debate over land, trade and credit XIV. The eighteenth-century debate -- Virtue, passion and commerce XV. The americanization of virtue -- Corruption, constitution and frontier