Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / David C. Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara
  • Between antiquity and modernity. Machiavelli on necessity / Harvey C. Mansfield
  • Machiavelli on good and evil: the problem of dirty hands revisited / Giovanni Giorgini
  • Machiavelli and the critics of Rome: rereading Discourses I.4 / Gabriele Pedullà
  • Machiavelli, "ancient theology," and the problem of civil religion / Miguel Vatter
  • The Prince and the politics of necessity. Machiavelli and the misunderstanding of princely virtù / Quentin Skinner
  • The necessity to be not-good: Machiavelli's two realisms / Erica Benner
  • Loyalty in adversity / Stephen Holmes
  • Machiavelli and the modern tyrant / Paul A. Rahe
  • Class struggle, financial power, and extraordinary authority in the republic. Machiavelli and the Gracchi: Republican liberty and class conflict / Benedetto Fontana
  • Machiavelli, the republic, and the financial crisis / Jérémie Barthas
  • Extraordinary accidents in the life of republics: Machiavelli and dictatorial authority / Marco Geuna
  • Machiavellian politics beyond Machiavelli. The reception of Machiavelli in contemporary Republicanism: some ambiguities and paradoxes / Jean-Fabien Spitz
  • On the myth of the conservative turn in Machiavelli's Florentine histories / John P. McCormick
  • Political imagination, conflict, and democracy: Machiavelli's republican realism / Luca Baccelli
  • "Armi proprie e improprie" in the work of some representative Italian readers of the twentieth century / Michele Battini
  • What does a "conjuncture-embedded" reflection mean? The legacy of Althusser's Machiavelli to contemporary political theory / Marie Gaille.