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This book examines the radical transformation in the language of politics which took place between the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. For three centuries politics enjoyed the status of the noblest human science, but it emerged from this 'revolution of politics' as an ignoble and sordid activity.Viroli, Maurizio is the author of 'From Politics to Reason of State The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics, 1250-1600' with ISBN 9780521414937 and ISBN 0521414938.
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