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Poetry and Politics: The sins of princes and peoples in Machiavelli’s dell’Ambizione* Rebecca McCumbers Ph.D. Candidate University of Notre Dame rmccumbe@nd.edu** Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 30 – September 1 2007 Chicago IL. *Subtitle differs from that listed in the APSA program **As this is a work in progress the author requests that you contact her for updates to the paper before citing the material. 2 I: Introduction Machiavelli’s most well-known
to the transcendent. In dell’Ambizione as well as in his other works Machiavelli does not criticize the pursuit of desires that are condemned by Christian and classical conceptions of virtue. Rather he not only promotes the pursuit of one’s desires but he also instructs one on how to be successful in this pursuit. Ambition is indeed central to Machiavelli’s work for he advises others how to properly pursue the ambitions and he does this while acting ir upon his