Machiavellian rhetoric : from the Counter-Reformation to Milton /
Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception...
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1c99bcq |
Sumário:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Note on Spelling and Translations
- Introduction
- Part One: Machiavelli
- One: The Prince
- Two: The Discourses
- Three: Rhetoric and Reason of State: Botero's Reading of Machiavelli
- Part Two: English Machiavellism
- Four: Reading Machiavelli, 1550-1640
- Five: Machiavellian Debates, 1530-1660
- Part Three: Milton
- Six: A Rhetoric of Indifference
- Seven: Virtue and Virtù in Comus
- Eight: Machiavellian Rhetoric in Paradise Lost
- Coda: Rhetoric and the Critique of Ideology
- Appendix: A Brief Note on Rhetoric and Republicanism in the Historiography of the Italian Renaissance
- Notes
- Index.