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- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One “Farewell the Tranquil Mind”
- Part Two Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare’s As You Like It
- Part Three Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
- 6 Skeptical Constructions of Identity in Roman and Renaissance Humanism
- 7 Academic Skepticism and Cicero’s Republican Politics
- 8 A Ciceronian Machiavelli
- 9 Montaigne’s Pyrrhonist Politics
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - A Ciceronian Machiavelli
from Part Three - Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One “Farewell the Tranquil Mind”
- Part Two Comic Skepticism and Polytropic Strategies in Homer’s Odyssey, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare’s As You Like It
- Part Three Skepticism, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
- 6 Skeptical Constructions of Identity in Roman and Renaissance Humanism
- 7 Academic Skepticism and Cicero’s Republican Politics
- 8 A Ciceronian Machiavelli
- 9 Montaigne’s Pyrrhonist Politics
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance , pp. 184 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012