Offering evidence of the failure of The Prince to deliver on these epistemological aspirations, the article argues that the work’s concluding chapter amounts to a final attempt to render the variability and contingency of the city’s political situation intelligible by fashioning it into an apocalyptic story with which Florentines would have been intimately familiar. Machiavelli gravitates toward this apocalyptic solution because he has failed to render the apparent contingency of the political world intelligible by containing it with analytical categories, ordering it with general rules, or analogizing it with metaphors for fortune.
The final chapter of The Prince, the article suggests, is an apocalyptic exhortation that reiterates Savonarola’s message in secular terms. In Florence, the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola was at the center of this enthusiastic movement. O元290390W Page_number_confidence 95.54 Pages 518 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.10 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210406170357 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 618 Scandate 20210326215146 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780679743422 Tts_version 4.This article accounts for the surprising final chapter of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Prince by situating it in the context of the apocalyptic fervor that gripped Italy at the turn of the sixteenth century. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:00:47 Boxid IA40085618 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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