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This international conference at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome aims to shed new light on the political thought of the Dutch Republic. It will highlight essential moments in the Republic’s Machiavellian self-awareness, from the Dutch Revolt at the end of the sixteenth century to the Revolutionary Era at the end of the eighteenth century.
Program
Friday 25 November
14.30 Welcome & Introduction
Bernard Stolte (Rome)
Enzo Baldini (Turin)
Hans Blom (Potsdam)
15.00-16.30
Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum), French Machiavellians and the Dutch Revolt
Alberto Clerici (Rome), Antimachiavellism in Dutch propaganda during the Revolt
17.00-18.30
Stefano Visentin (Urbino), The Coornhert-Lipsius Clash: A Machiavellian politics of religion
Jan Waszink (Rotterdam), Lipsius's influence on Grotius: Tacitism
Saturday 26 November
9.30-11.00
Merio Scattola (Padua), Machiavelli, Grotius and natural law
Martin van Gelderen (Florence), Florentine Disasters, Dutch Fortunes: Hooft, Grotius and Machiavelli
11.30-13.00
Mark Somos (Berlin), Cunaeus and the Machiavellianisation of the Hebrew Republic
Lea Campos Boralevi (Florence), 'Lex agraria' from Cunaeus to Harrington
14.30-16.30
Paul van Heck (Leiden), Machiavelli in the Republic: books, translations, interpretations
Arthur Weststeijn (Rome), Machiavelli in Dutch colonial ideology
Michel Reinders (Rotterdam), Johan de Witt, Machiavelli and the people
17.00-18.30
Hans Blom (Potsdam), Mandeville, Machiavellian critic of Spinoza
Koen Stapelbroek (Rotterdam), Trade, treaties and political virtue: the Machiavellian legacy at the end of the Republic
18.30-19.00
Joris van Eijnatten (Utrecht), Concluding remarks
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