Political Realism
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Links
The Invasions of Italy, Machiavelli and Guicciardini
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/04.html
Chapter 4 of the book "Renaissance and Reformation" by William Gilbert. Discusses the political climate and the two major thinkers.
Virt in and since the Renaissance
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhicontrib2.cgi?id=dv4-64
Jerrold E. Seigel writes about the concept and how it is used by Machiavelli and later thinkers. From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
Political Thought in the 16th Century
http://www.liceomarconi.it/pee-99-00/political.html
An overview of the Florentine thinkers. From the European Educational Project.