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Machiavelli and the problem of dictatorship
No full textMachiavelli is the first modern political thinker who pays great attention to the magistracy of dictatorship. “Dictatorial authority,” as he puts it, is fundamental to the survival and prosperity of republics: It is the magistracy, the “ordinary mode,” to which they turn to deal with “extraordinary accidents,” political and military emergencies. Machiavelli’s gaze is cast both on the Ancient and the Modern world: Although he concentrates on the Roman magistracy, he also pays attention to magistracies of the modern world that were in some way similar, such as the Council of the Ten in the Republic of Venice. In my paper, I will attempt to reconstruct the essential points of Machiavelli’s discussion on dictatorship; in the concluding remarks, I will briefly tackle the more general question of the relation- ship between politics and law in his work as a whole
Rousseau interprete di Machiavelli
No full textIn the Social Contract, Rousseau endorses the so called oblique interpretation of The Prince, according to which the text is a «satire», a denunciation of tyranny. Rousseau also refers to Machiavelli’s Discourses and the Florentine Histories in a highly selective way. This article aims to reconstruct analogies and differences, continuities and discontinuities between the two political thinkers. It focuses on their privileged model of republic and on their overall approach to politics. Machiavelli and Rousseau developed different republican theories: the former hinges on the moment of conflict and the latter on the issue of equality
La tradizione repubblicana e i suoi interpreti : famiglie teoriche e discontinuità concettuali
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