Niccolò Machiavelli as a Guide: From the Art of War to the Guide for Managers

<p>This study examines the literary and visual connections between war and peace as a cultural diplomacy made by both Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) and Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574). The approach here is iconographical, focusing on three points. First, Machiavelli’s notions of condottiere, virtù, and war and peace in The Art of War (1521) are discussed in relation to Renaissance imagery, particularly in that produced as a result of Medicean patronage. Second, Vasari’s battle cycle in the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Vecchio (1555-60) in Florence is examined within the context of peace as revealed in Renaissance art and emblems. Finally, Vasari’s assimilation of Machiavelli’s notions of the art of war are interpreted in relation to the painting cycle, which visually embodies the paradox of war and peace discussed in Machiavelli’s writing. </p>

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The Art of War

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e578482014-277 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Jose Ramos

Keyword(s):

Art Of War ◽

The Art Of War

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

Moreana ◽

10.3366/more.2017.0006 ◽

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.

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