Connections between political intelligence and power maintenance in Niccolo Machiavelli

Authors

  • Fábio Régio Bento Universidade Federal do Pampa - Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23899/relacult.v1i1.1

Keywords:

Machiavelli, The Prince, power maintenance

Abstract

The Prince, written in 1513 and published in 1531, four years after Niccolo Machiavelli's death (1469-1527), continues to be permanently reproposed, after more than five centuries of its inception, throughout a wide range of translations, not always coherent with the 1513 manuscript. In fact, as noted by Marques (2006, p. 41), Prince's Machiavelli is still presented as a “teacher of evil”. On the contrary to what the common sense affirms, however, the Florentine secretary was not Machiavellian.

In this paper, through a direct study of The Prince in the Italian manuscript of 1513 (Machiavelli, 1988), and with the aid of translation from Maria Lucia Cumo (Maquiavel 1996), we shall analyze the connections in The Prince between political intelligence and virtuous maintenance of power, by claiming that The Prince is not an amoral  neither immoral book, but of political morality of the intelligent maintenance of power according to what Machiavelli understands as political virtues.

Author Biography

  • Fábio Régio Bento, Universidade Federal do Pampa - Brasil

    Pós-doutorando no PPG em Antropologia Social da UFRGS

    Doutor em Ciências Sociais pela Pontifícia Universidade S. Tommaso D'Aquino

    Mestre em Teologia Social pela Academia Alfonsiana da Pontifícia Universidade Lateranense

    Docente do Bacharelado em Relações Internacionais

    Grupo de pesquisa sobre Religiões e Relações Internacionais.

    Universidade Federal do Pampa – UNIPAMPA – Brasil

References

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MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. Il Principe. La Spezia: Fratelli Melita Editori, 1988.

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Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1996.

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PIZZORNI, R. Storia delle dottrine politiche. Roma: 1989.

VILLARI, Pasquale. Lo spirito dei tempi. In: Niccolò Machiavelli – Opere. Milão: Gherardo Casini Editore, 1989, p.17-25.

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Published

2015-07-27

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Artigos - Fluxo Contínuo

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Connections between political intelligence and power maintenance in Niccolo Machiavelli. (2015). RELACult – Latin American Journal of Cultural and Social Studies, 1(1), 08-24. https://doi.org/10.23899/relacult.v1i1.1