Index

Alighieri , Dante 21 America 1 34-5 American Constitution 100-1 Antimachiavell 137 arms 62 Art of War, The 11 3-15

Bacon, Francis 5 Barings Bank 95 Bellah, Robert 160 Bonaparte, Napoleon 137 Borgia

Cesare 33-6 , 38-9 , 57 cruelty 71 Lucretia 34 Botticelli, Sandro 9

burns artworks 28 Brunelleschi, Filippo 8

Caesar, Julius 93 capitalism 98 Chamberlain , Neville 54 Christianity 106-7 civic

republicanism 138, 140-8 virtue 151 civil society 141-3 Clinton, Bill 76, 129 Columbus, Christopher 12 communism

after 146 Gramsci 155 see also Marx, Karl Communitarianism 160-4 communities vs. monism 166-7 Coolidge, Calvin 143 corruption 1 09 Corsini , Marietta 33

Discourses, The 86-92

published 123 discussion group 86-7

End of History, The 150 Enlightenment , the 138-9 equality 102-3 Etzioni, Amitai 160

fascism 153

Ferdinand of Aragon 76 Ficino, Marsilio 13 Florence

civil war 21 falls 122 French invasion 26 government 23 history 20 Renaissance 6-13 taken by Spain 42-3 fortune, concept of 59-62, 117 Franco , Francisco 125 Frederick the Great 137 free market 142, 144-7, 150 Fukuyama, Francis 150

Gaulle, Charles de 129 Ghibellines 20-2 Gorbachev, Mikhail 129 Gramsci, Antonio 154-9 Gueits 20-2 Guicciardini , Francesco 101

Hegel, G.W.F. 138 History of Florence 20, 23, 116, 123 Hobbes, Thomas 148 humanism 14-16 hypocrisy 72

immigration 109 imperialism 1 08 Italy

defending 78-9 divided 18 resurgence 80 see also Florence; Pisa

Kagan, Donald 131 Kissinger, Henry 4

laws 62 Leach , Christopher 98 leadership see Prince, The left vs. right 152-5 Leviathan (Hobbes) 148 liberal democracy 148, 150 liberty 89-91

loss of 171 positive vs. negative 165 Locke, John 149 loyalty 75