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Machiavelli and the Anatomy of Passions
Series: - Thinking in Extremes, Volume: 5
Despite the long-standing image of him as a cool and rational thinker, Machiavelli keenly understood that passions perform a key function in politics: ambition, anger, fear, hope, and love are just some of the emotions that inhabit the works of Niccolò Machiavelli. Nonetheless, his thoughts on passions have never been thoroughly explored in scholarship. To fill this gap, this book gathers fifteen essays by scholars with different academic backgrounds and approaches to this topic. The outcome is a compelling, multidisciplinary, and groundbreaking analysis of the entanglement of passions and politics in Machiavelli’s political, historical, and literary writings.
Contributors are: Claudia Antonini, Lucio Biasiori, Tommaso De Robertis, Alberto Fabris, Guido Frilli, Jayne Knight, Manuel Knoll, Diego Lazzarich, Julien Le Mauff, César Morales Oyarvide, Alessio Panichi, Julia Penafiel, Andrea Polegato, Ron Schmidt, and Valentina Serio.
Contributors are: Claudia Antonini, Lucio Biasiori, Tommaso De Robertis, Alberto Fabris, Guido Frilli, Jayne Knight, Manuel Knoll, Diego Lazzarich, Julien Le Mauff, César Morales Oyarvide, Alessio Panichi, Julia Penafiel, Andrea Polegato, Ron Schmidt, and Valentina Serio.
Alessio Panichi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L’Orientale. He has published monographs and many articles on early modern and twentieth-century political thought. His last book is Norberto Bobbio. Per “Belfagor”. Gli interventi e le corrispondenze con Luigi e Carlo Ferdinando Russo (Aragno, 2026).
Valentina Serio is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Stanford University. Her main research interests lie in the history of political thought and the history of science. She has published several scientific articles on Leon Battista Alberti, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the history of melancholy.
Valentina Serio is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Stanford University. Her main research interests lie in the history of political thought and the history of science. She has published several scientific articles on Leon Battista Alberti, Niccolò Machiavelli, and the history of melancholy.
This book is of immediate interest to scholars and students in the fields of intellectual history, the history of emotions, the history of political thought, and Renaissance studies.