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Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi

Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style: Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi

Belliotti, Raymond Angelo

Paperback

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Italian Studies

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismItalian History

ISBN10: 1683932773
ISBN13: 9781683932772
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Dec 20 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style illustrates the story of the evolution of Italian values, virtues, and vices is a narrative of longing, exhilaration, and devastation, a journey of the spirit that all human beings necessarily undertake but navigate with varying degrees of success. The lives of Caesar, Dante, Machiavelli, and Garibaldi demonstrate how we can lead staunchly meaningful lives even within an inherently meaningless universe. The ambition of this work is nothing more, nothing less, than entangling, through a careful examination of the values, virtues, and vices of four famous historical figures, a host of overlapping but distinct concepts, such as pride, honor, justification, excuse, repentance, and forgiveness that frame human existence. Belliotti's objective is that by conducting such an interdisciplinary inquiry we might better position ourselves to craft our characters within the limitations enjoined by our cosmic circumstances. As always, however, we must deliberate, choose, and act under conditions of inescapable uncertainty; assume responsibility for the people we are becoming; and, hopefully, depart the planet with honor and merited pride. Along the way, we might even magnify our link in the generational chain that defines our identity.

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