by Philip Bobbitt · Atlantic Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781843546849
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«The Garments of Court and Palace» is Philip Bobbitt's essay on political history and philosophy, published by Atlantic Books (hardcover, in English).
Bobbitt places Machiavelli in Renaissance Italy and sees in 'The Prince' a key text for understanding the birth of the modern state. He argues that, read alongside the 'Discourses', the work shows the end of the feudal order and the birth of modern politics, and underscores the role of law and war in creating and maintaining the state.
Hardcover edition of 238 pages in English, with the subtitle 'Machiavelli and the World that He Made'. The essay falls within political history and philosophy.
For readers of history, political philosophy and state theory interested in Machiavelli and the Renaissance.
