Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)

2015 ◽  
pp. 652-654
Keyword(s):  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli

Outsiders of Hagnopolis: unbelief, fear, and religion in Thomas More's Utopia

Moreana ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (Number 207) (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Ismael del Olmo
Keyword(s):  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli ◽  
Divine Retribution ◽  
Eternal Punishment

This paper deals with unbelief and its relationship with fear and religion in Thomas More's Utopia. It stresses the fact that Epicurean and radical Aristotelian theses challenged Christian notions about immortality, Providence, and divine Judgement. The examples of Niccolò Machiavelli and Pietro Pomponazzi, contemporaries of More, are set to show a heterodox connection between these theses and the notion of fear of eternal punishment. More's account of the Utopian religion, on the contrary, distinguishes between human fear and religious fear. This distinction enables him to highlight the threat to spiritual and civic life posed by those who deny the soul and divine retribution.

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI: 1527-1927

1927 ◽  
Vol 8 (87) ◽  
pp. 335-346
Author(s):  
Henry Bugeja
Keyword(s):  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli

Review: Niccolò Machiavelli

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-384
Author(s):  
Victor A. Santi
Keyword(s):  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli

scholarly journals Fortune's Circle: A Biographical Interpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-42
Author(s):  
Charles D. Tarlton (book author) ◽  
Olga Z. Pugliese (review author)
Keyword(s):  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli

Conclusion

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Gatti
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
John Milton ◽  
European Society ◽  
Niccolo Machiavelli ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Niccolò Machiavelli

This concluding chapter reflects on the historical foundation on which the modern discourse of liberty and toleration is based. It looks back to “the long sixteenth century,” the period between 1500 and approximately 1650—specifically between the time of Niccolò Machiavelli and John Milton—during which the principal concepts and themes concerning liberty in the modern world began to emerge against a background of unprecedented violence and oppression. At this time a series of dramatic crises that altered the map of European society and culture, bringing about changes so radical and lasting that all the values that had guided the previous centuries had to be recast in entirely different and unfamiliar molds.

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