About This Lesson
Essential Question:
HOW DO NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF MACHIAVELLI AS HISTORICAL RHETORICIAN HELP US FORMULATE MEANINGFUL DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES?
To have students analyze and evaluate new interpretations of role as historical rhetorician shedding new light on the princely state, new political orders and policy formulation based on history.
Citation: Bobbitt, Philip. The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the World That He Made. New York, NY: Grove, 2013. (Pgs. 29-31; 93-104)