Description: The Priority of Event over Form in Machiavelli's Discourse.- 1: The Form of the State -- on Beginnings.- 1. The Priority of Form over Event in the Ancients.- 2. The Natural Origin of Political Form: the Circle of Constitutions.- 3. The Religious Origin of Political Form: the System of Authority.- 4. The Free Origin of Political Form: from the Principle of Law to the Discord of Principles.- 5. The Topology of Political Freedom.- 6. The Corruption of Political Freedom: The Modem State as Civil Prince.- 2: Machiavelli's Theory of History: Modes of Encounter between Action and Time.- 1. The Encounter of Action and Times as Explanation of Fortuna.- 2. From Action as Correspondence with the Times to Action as Changing the Times.- 3. History as Effect of Free Action: Fortuna and Virt in The Prince.- 4. The People as Subject Matter of History: Fortuna and Virt in the Discourses on Livy.- 3: The Event of the Republic -- The Return to Beginnings.- 1. The Aporetic Foundation of Political Freedom.- 2. The Theory of Return to Beginnings.- 3. The Revolutionary Event: Theory of Political Change.- 4. Theory of Citizenship and Ethically-Contradictory Action.- Conclusion The Machiavellian Legacy: Origin and Outcomes of the Conflict Between Politics and Morality in Modernity.- Index of Names.

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