Machiavelli's Art of War: A Reconsideration*
Abstract Machiavelli's Art of War contains an unexplored and unexplained paradox: the dialogue's chief interlocutor is Fabrizio Colonna, a condottiere in the employ of Ferdinand of Aragon, who played a critical role in the Spanish conquest of northern Italy and in the collapse of the Florentine republic led by Piero Soderini, in which Machiavelli worked as a civil servant. Yet, Machiavelli chooses Fabrizio to defend the superiority of the citizen militia, which he associates with republican civic virtue, over mercenary troops. This paradox has remained unaccounted for because literary scholars have ignored the historical background underlying the text's assorted political subtexts, while historians have ignored the nature of Quattrocento dialogue, as a literary genre, in contextualizing the work. Once these historical and literary dimensions of the Art of War are brought together, it can be seen why Fabrizio Colonna would have been perceived, by Machiavelli and his audience, as the ideal representative of a military position which he espoused neither in theory or in practice.
Maquiavelo y los condottieri
This paper analyzes Machiavellis reflections and opinions about the condottiere were relevantcharacters in the Machiavellis work, the condottiere were mercenary soldiers,soldiers of fortune which had and important function in military and political facts in theXIV, XV and XVI centuries. Particularly about four of them: John Hawkwood, FranciscoSforza, Fabrizio Colonna y Castruccio Castracani. The analysis of these characters, or theMachiavellis opinion about them, has the objective to show one of the most importantelements of the Renaissances wars, and so offer basic considerations to understand thegeneral conception of human nature and the connection with political analysis.
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