To Know Machiavelli

"To Know Machiavelli" chronicles Niccolò Machiavelli's beliefs and life in Florence through wars, artistic and cultural developments, and historical achievements.

"To Know Machiavelli" is the only book since 1927 that brings together a complete, critical examination of Niccolò Machiavelli's political ideas in the context of his personal and historical circumstance. This volume acquires further relevance on the eve of the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli's "Discorsi Sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio," which reflects his realistic spirit, love for his country, and vocation for the republic and freedom. To act effectively on the political, social, and economic reality, one must first gain awareness. In that sense, one must consider that people relate to knowledge in two primary ways. First, people can understand knowledge by themselves. Second, people can discern what others comprehend. In the same way, knowledge is the ability to be aware of the actual reality of things, not how they are imagined. Knowing is discerning being from seeming. This book is directed towards an educated public interested in knowing Niccolò Machiavelli's thoughts as the author of the first great political discovery of modern times: politics is autonomous from morals and religion as a result of the distinction between what "is" and what "should be."

Roman Frondizi, the author, is a lawyer, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires with an Honors Diploma. Jurist, political scientist, writer, essayist, lecturer. He has been a diplomat, a direct collaborator of Arturo Frondizi, President of the Argentine Republic. He has also been in charge of legal affairs of the holding Aviofer-Breda, Rome (Italy), was judge of the Federal Court, associate judge of the Supreme Court, member of the national delegation before the Ibero-American Summits of Supreme Courts and Tribunals of Ibero-America, representative of the Judiciary before the First Judicial Summit of the Americas. He is the author of numerous articles and papers on legal and political issues and several books, including "The civil sentence", "Guarantees and efficiency in criminal evidence", "The law, the judge, justice". He has dedicated many years of archival and bibliographical research, studies and readings to the preparation and writing of the book that we present, the only one since 1927 that brings together in a single volume a complete critical examination of the political ideas of Niccolò Macchiavelli in the context of his personal and historical circumstance. The edition acquires particular relevance for appearing on the eve of the 500th anniversary of the "Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio", the most important work of the great Florentine, which reflects his realistic spirit, his love for his country, and his vocation for the republic and freedom.