Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1 The Republican Religion 2
2 Machiavelli the Puritan 11
3 Machiavelli's Prophecy 20
Chapter 1 His God 27
1 The Soul and the Fatherland 27
2 Republican Christianity 43
3 Machiavelli and the Religion of Virtue 61
4 Moral and Religious Reform 75
Chapter 2 The Power of Words 89
1 Rhetoric and Civil Religion 89
2 Machiavelli, Orator 99
3 Creator of Myths 109
4 His Finest Piece of Oratory 122
5 Republican Eloquence and Wisdom 134
Chapter 3 The Republic and its Religion 154
1 Republican Government and Religion 154
2 The Religion of Liberty 170
3 Customs and Religion 177
4 Religion, War, and Social Conflict 185
5 The Reform of Orders and the Reform of Customs 198
Chapter 4 Machiavelli and the Religious and Moral Reformation of Italy 208
1 Heresy and Aspirations for Religious Reform 211
2 The Difficulties of Survival in Counter-Reformation Italy 232
3 The Redemption of Italy and the Idea of Moral Reform in the Writers of the Eighteenth Century 247
4 The Risorgimento and the Religion of Liberty 263
Index 295
