Ebook: Machiavelli's God

Annotation;The Republican religion -- Machiavelli the Puritan -- Machiavelli's prophecy -- The soul and the fatherland -- Republican Christianity -- Machiavelli and the religion of virtue -- Moral and religious reform -- Rhetoric and civil religion -- Machiavelli, orator -- Creator of myths -- His finest piece of oratory -- Republican eloquence and wisdom -- Republican government and religion -- The religion of liberty -- Customs and religion -- Religion, war, and social conflict -- The reform of orders and the reform of customs -- Heresy and the aspirations for religious reform -- The difficulties of survival in counter-Reformation Italy -- The redemption of Italy and the idea of moral reform in the writers of the eighteenth century -- The Risorgimento and the religion of liberty.