Momento maquiaveliano e momento shakespeareano

Hobbes' work inaugurates the central lines of modern political thought by thinking against (and here lie its tension and its tragedy) its most important and also its most disturbing discovery: the idea that the conflict is the irreductible nucleous of social and political relationships. Here is suggested that this idea of conflict as a key to understand political processes may be reinstalled by looking, beyond Hobbes, both at Maquiavelli's and at Shakespeare's worlds.