Pasquale pasquino machiavelli biography

History of European Ideas 35 (2009) 397–407 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect History of European Ideas journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/histeuroideas Machiavelli and Aristotle: The anatomies of the city Pasquale Pasquino a,b,* a b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France New York University, United States Available online 3 July 2009 For John Dunn Fragestellung The title of this article contains the epigrammatic answer to the question posed more than 45 years ago by the great German Machiavelli scholar, Hans Baron,1 regarding the relationship between the Florentine thinker’s two major political works: ‘how could the faithful secretary of the Florentine republic, the author of the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, also be the author of The Prince?

In the history of Machiavelli’s influence, this question has not yet been definitively answered.’ According to Baron this situation remai