The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought by David Miller & Janet Coleman

Author:David Miller & Janet Coleman [Miller, David & Coleman, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dictionaries, Political Science, Reference, General
ISBN: 9780631179443
Google: NIZfQTd3nSMC
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1987-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

By 1530 it was agreed by Machiavelli, Guicciardini and Vettori that there was little distinction between republics and tyrannies, nor could it be argued that someone lacking a legitimate title was a tyrant. By the late 1520s Francesco Vettori had condemned all government as tyrannical, French and Venetian as well as Florentine, and Guicciardini agreed: 'all political power is rooted in violence, there is no legitimate power' (Maxims, p. 119), and in 1536 it was he who justified Duke Alessandro de' Medici's absolutism on the grounds that, once established, a state has unlimited power. In his 1520 Discursus Machiavelli also agreed, by giving full sovereign powers to the Medici in Florence for their lifetimes. Thus in their writings the old distinction between good and bad government was eradicated.

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