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Article: Langues et ecritures de la Republique et de la guerre: Etudes sur Machiavel.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2006
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Alessandro Fontana, Jean-Louis Fournel, Xavier Tabet, and Jean-Claude Zancarini, eds. Langues et ecritures de la Republique et de la guerre: Etudes sur Machiavel.
Genoa: Name edizione, 2004. 506 pp. index. [euro] 32. ISBN: 88-87298-54-8.
This is a volume of twenty-two papers in French and Italian presented at two international colloquia on Machiavelli held in Paris in 1998 and in Lyon in 2001. They fall largely into two groups: a historicist one focused on the question of Machiavellian language and discourse, labeled "political philology" by the editors, and a genealogical one that uses the Machiavellian oeuvre as a kind of tool chest for thinking about ...