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"What Machiavelli really represents, therefore, is a revolution of the way that politics was understood during the Italian Renaissance, during which the Ciceronian view on republican virtues, political action being intertwined with moral virtue, was experiencing a revival... Cicero and Machiavelli both agree that, in maintaining power, there are two courses: one through reasoned debate and the other by force"

04/05/2025

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