Machiavelli Thesis

I will begin talking about what I propose to discuss in my dissertation. Firstly the title includes two main components; who influenced Machiavelli and the second part includes who he himself influenced through his writings and actions of war and violence.
I have done numerous accounts of research, most importantly by reading the art of war written by Machiavelli. This book consists of answering the first question of who influenced him.
Throughout the book, there are many examples which show who he was influenced by, particularly the Ancient Romans, like Caesar and Alexander the Great, with which I will discuss numerous examples of what they themselves did in the past and which Machiavelli talks about which shows how it influences Machiavelli,
particularly throughout his time in Florence.
Machiavelli was not only influenced by leaders, he was also influenced by ancient authors such as Thucydides, Josephus and Livy. I will discuss particular examples throughout the art of war which show he was influenced by these men.
I feel it is very important to discuss who influenced such a person, especially during the time period of the Renaissance, which is why I am researching this particular topic.
Machiavelli was influenced by these authors and leaders and developed from them when introducing his own type of leadership in Florence. It is always important to know where a person got his or her ideas from, which Machiavelli incorporates into his own system in Florence, by developing his own ideas as a leader.
I will go through numerous examples of these ancient authors and leaders, which I have mentioned at the start and discuss each of them in relation to who exactly influenced Niccolo Machiavelli.
In relation to the second part of this thesis on Machiavelli, I will discuss who he influenced, such as authors, like Pocock, Skinner, Baron, Lynch, along with more like Guicciardini (whom describes all about Machiavelli’s civic malicia and what he did in Florence which is the issue which influences these authors and describe their interpretations of Machiavelli), and I will show in my thesis whether these were positive or negative. I am currently reading Lynch’s book on Machiavelli, where he sums up Machiavelli’s art of war. His overall impression is that of a positive one, which I will examine along with the other authors. I will try and compare and contrast these authors’ interpretations and see what conclusions of thought they come up
with.
Many other people were truly inspired by Machiavelli, such as great leaders like Napoleon, Frederick the Great, even Hitler, which I will also examine in my thesis, by showing what they did and how exactly they were influenced by Machiavelli through his writings and actions of war and violence.
This thesis will cover a lot of grounds in relation to Machiavelli, which includes a lot of extensive reading material, which can be seen at the bottom.
Overall, I hope to explore who exactly influenced this great leader, author, etc and who he himself has influenced throughout the ages.

Niccolo, M. (1520) 'The art of War', Italy

Hornqvist, M. (2002) ‘Machiavelli and the Florentine Malicia of 1506’ vol 55 no 1 pg 148-191, University of Chicago Press (on blackboard)

Lynch, C. (2003) 'Art of War, Latest ed’, University of
Chicago Press

Quentin, S. (1981) 'Machiavelli', Oxford University Press

Baron, H. (1966)’The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance, Princeton

Hankins, J.(1995) ‘The Baron thesis after forty years and some recent studies of Leonardo Bruni’, Journal of the
History of Ideas, 56

Black, R. (2001) ‘Renaissance Thought: A Reader’ , London