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From fight to debate

Machiavelli and the revolt of the Ciompi

In A History of Florence, Machiavelli recounts revolts, especially of the Ciompi of 1378, which display the repeated surfacings of the desire for freedom navigating ceaselessly between the desire to abolish freedom through the recourse to absolute power and moments when virtue triumphs over fortuna and achieves an order that, while fragile, makes the antagonisms fit in such a way that instead of fights they become debates. For Machiavelli, the speeches made in these situations serve to both analyze the circumstances within which the struggles take on meaning and to display the desire for freedom carving out its path using the energy deployed via the negativity of the desire not to be dominated.

Key Words: Ciompi • domination • Florence • guilds • license • Machiavelli • non-domination

Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 28, No. 6, 647-660 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/019145370202800604


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