id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt kw52j67670p Colleen E. Mitchell The Political Lessons of Rome: Augustine and Machiavelli on the Eternal City 2019 .txt text/plain 233 8 48 My dissertation has three substantive parts: the first deals with Augustine, the second with Machiavelli, and the third with larger themes about the relationships between politics, religion, and morality in the writings of these two thinkers and in contemporary politics. Augustine is known for being a sharp critic of Rome, and his antipathy toward the Eternal City is often used to argue that Augustine is disdainful of earthly politics more generally. cache/kw52j67670p.txt txt/kw52j67670p.txt