| RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
| Anno V , n° 2, Dicembre 1987 ( Contributi ) | pag. 18-30 |
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| MACHIAVELLI'S BORGIA: FOUNDER AND FAILURE | |
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| JACK D'AMICO | |
| Canisius College, Buffalo, New York |
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In Chapter VII of The Prince Machiavelli discusses the methods used by Cesare Borgia to gain control over and pacify the Romagna. Since, as Machiavelli says what Borgia did was worth being noted and imitated, he will pay some attention to the way this new prince operated. He took a region that under its impotent "signori" had fallen prey to brigands and managed to unify and pacify it, making it obedient to strong rule ("braccio regio") and good government1. The last example Machiavelli gives of the methods employed by Borgia constitutes one of the most striking, if not to say infamous, passages in Machiavelli's work. Borgia used his lieutenant, Remirro de Orco, a man apt for cruelty ("crudele ed espedito"), to pacify and unite the region. [...] |
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