books.google.ca - The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in which the...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Machiavellian_Moment.html?id=Gb4brksd2IQC&q=secular&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Machiavellian Moment
