Te Political Logic of Confict. A Debate on Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà * Tis section ofers a debate on G. Pedullà’s Machiavelli in Tumult: Te Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Confictualism (Cambridge 2018). Its ambition is to bring together textual and philological analysis that is «internal» to the great fabric of Machiavellian exegesis, alongside theoretical-political questioning «external» to that fabric. Te main objec- tive is to ofer a new image of Machiavelli as an author who breaks with a long and authoritative tradition, one which exalted concord as an absolute political value, and to inaugurate a new way of observing political and social phenomena. Te book is discussed by A. Brown, J. Hankins, J. Mc- Cormick, and N. Urbinati. Keywords: Machiavelli; Discord; Political conflict; POPOLO, Florence «Storica», n. 81, anno XXVII, 2021 ISSN 1125-0194 | eISSN 1973-2236 Introduction E. Igor Mineo Te book discussed here is the result of the thorough re- working of a text published a few years ago, in 2011 1 . Ref- erence to the Italian edition, which was welcomed and com- mented on by specialists at the time (as evidenced by the nu- merous reviews), serves only to indicate that the point of view developed in the book had already been known for some years and was recognized for its soundness and originality. However, the English translation, which is in fact a completely revised edition, has prompted Gabriele Pedullà to compose a system- atic work of further clarifcation. Te substance of the inter- * Machiavelli in Tumult: Te Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Confictualism, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge 2018 (henceforth Machiavelli in Tumult). 1  G. Pedullà, Machiavelli in tumulto. Conquista, cittadinanza e confitto nei «Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio», Bulzoni, Rome 2011.