Machiavelli e la lezione di Lucrezio

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dc.contributor.author	Centanni Monica
dc.title	Machiavelli e la lezione di Lucrezio
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Machiavelli’s knowledge of Lucretius’ text had been proven thanks to a very relevant discovery by Sergio Bertelli, who in 1961 published an article in which he recognized Machiavelli’s handwriting in the Vatican codex Rossianus 884. This paper analyses the possible repercussions of De rerum natura with respect to the political potential that Lucretius’ thought could had transmitted to Machiavelli, in view of his return to the vita activa. In particular, the notes posted by Machiavelli in the marginalia of the Lucretius’ text he transcribed, prove his reflection on the “clinamen theory”. In the various profiles of the world generated by the vital trigger that the clinamen causes, lies a possibility for us of having a libera mens: the possibility of intercepting and correcting, by our own virtue, the twists and turns of Fate, opposes the individual liberty to the whims of Fortuna, but also to the idea of an ineffable Divine Providence with its mysterious and intractable designs.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-14
dc.dateAccepted	2021-09-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-08-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-558-2/machiavelli-e-la-lezione-di-lucrezio/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-557-5/023
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-558-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-557-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.subject	Clinamen
dc.subject	Clinamen
dc.subject	Florentine Renaissance
dc.subject	Florentine Renaissance
dc.subject	Fortuna
dc.subject	Fortuna
dc.subject	Lucretius
dc.subject	Lucretius
dc.subject	Machiavelli
dc.subject	Machiavelli

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Machiavelli e la lezione di Lucrezio

Monica Centanni Università IUAV di Venezia, Italia

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Machiavelli’s knowledge of Lucretius’ text had been proven thanks to a very relevant discovery by Sergio Bertelli, who in 1961 published an article in which he recognized Machiavelli’s handwriting in the Vatican codex Rossianus 884. This paper analyses the possible repercussions of De rerum natura with respect to the political potential that Lucretius’ thought could had transmitted to Machiavelli, in view of his return to the vita activa. In particular, the notes posted by Machiavelli in the marginalia of the Lucretius’ text he transcribed, prove his reflection on the “clinamen theory”. In the various profiles of the world generated by the vital trigger that the clinamen causes, lies a possibility for us of having a libera mens: the possibility of intercepting and correcting, by our own virtue, the twists and turns of Fate, opposes the individual liberty to the whims of Fortuna, but also to the idea of an ineffable Divine Providence with its mysterious and intractable designs.

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Dec. 14, 2021

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Sept. 24, 2021

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Aug. 23, 2021

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978-88-6969-558-2

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Keywords: Machiavelli • Fortuna • Lucretius • Florentine Renaissance • Clinamen

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