"Machiavelli: A Good Teacher of Goodness" by Maurizio Viroli

This lecture is a part of the Steiner Memorial Lecture Series

Against current scholarly trends that maintain that Niccolo Machiavelli was
an evil man and a teacher of evil, I claim that he was a good man and a
teacher of good. I also claim that his goodness was the foundation of his
republican political vision. Maurizio Viroli is Professor of Government at the University of Texas (Austin), Professor of Political Communication at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano), and Professor Emeritus of Politics at Princeton University. Among his publications are Prophetic Times. Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy, Cambridge University Press (2022); The Quotable Machiavelli, Princeton, Princeton University Press (2016); and How to choose a leader. Machiavelli’s advice to citizens, Princeton, Princeton University Press (2016) just to name a few.

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