Machiavelli - The First Century
Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 June 2005
- ISBN 9780199267767
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages776 pages
- Size 223x148x47 mm
- Weight 1058 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 776 illustrations 0
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Short description:
Between 1513 and 1525 Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters which continued to be reissued regularly, well into the early seventeenth century. The popularity of Machiavelli's books, the variety of his themes, the different contexts within which he was studied, the range of readers' interests, and the fact that his name entered the vocabulary of every European language - all make his early reception a fruitful field of enquiry. Basing his book entirely upon primary sources Sydney Anglo, a leading expert in the field of Renaissance studies, writes in a lively and trenchant style. This new interpretation of the impact of Machiavelli is an original contribution of the highest quality.
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Between 1513 and 1525 Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters. One of these (the 'Arte della guerra') was published in 1521, but the rest of his major writings were not published until 1531-2, nearly five years after his death. They continued to be reissued regularly, well into the early seventeenth century. The popularity of Machiavelli's books, the variety of his themes, the different contexts within which he was studied, the range of readers' interests, and the fact that his name entered the vocabulary of every European language - all make his early reception a fruitful field of enquiry. Historians of ideas have tended to tidy up the past in order to make it comprehensible but Sydney Anglo is concerned with heterogeneity, and with the often irrational and emotional aspects of sixteenth-century thought. Basing his research entirely upon primary sources he quotes extensively in the conviction that, in a battle of words, the words themselves and their tone convey more than summaries of intellectual abstractions.
Authors - hostile, enthusiastic, and indifferent - are closely examined; and many different contexts, political and intellectual, are considered. Sometimes Machiavelli was influential, sometimes not, but in this history of his reception, silences often prove significant. Written in a lively and trenchant style, this new interpretation of the impact of Machievalli is an original contribution of high quality by a leading expert in the field of Renaissance studies.
The difficulties of dealing with a subject which is so elusive and complex have not prevented the author from giving us a truly important work, rich in ideas, and with a bibliographic framework of remarkable breadth and accuracy, which encompasses the whole European perspective ...
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Problems Regarding Method
I. Early Readership
The Earliest Readers of Machiavelli: Miscellaneous and Military
Creative Plagiarism: Agostino Nifo's De regnandi peritia
Early Readers of Machiavelli: Comment and Discourse
A Hostile Cardinal: Reginald Pole and his Apologia
Osorio and Machiavelli: From Open Hostility to Covert Approbation
Machiavelli and the Index of Prohibited Books
Machiavelli's Keenest Readers: The Early Translators
II. The Rhetoric of Hate
In Praise of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli's 'Maximes tyranniques'
In the Wake of Gentillet: Evolution of the 'Machiavel' Stereotype in France and England
More Machiavellian than Machiavel: The Jesuits and the Context of Donne's Conclave
III. Adaptation, Attack, Defence
Gentillet's Final Assault: The 'Contre-Machiavel' of 1585
From Sublime to Ridiculous: Some Serious Readers of Machiavelli
Writers on the Art of War
IV. Machiavelli and Non-Machiavelli
Paradoxes on the Reception of Machiavelli's Military Thinking
Systematic Immorality: The Courtier's Art
Systematic Fragmentation: The Vogue of the Political Aphorism
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
