Machiavelli the First Century Studies in Enthusiasm Hostility and Irrelevance 1st Edition by Sydney Anglo 0199267766 9780199267767

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ISBN 10: 0199267766 

ISBN 13: 9780199267767

Author: Sydney Anglo

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.

Table of contents:

PART I. EARLY READERSHIP

1. The Earliest Readers of Machiavelli: Miscellaneous and Military

2. Creative Plagiarism: Agostino Nifo’s De regnandi peritia

3. Early Readers of Machiavelli: Comment and Discourse

4. A Hostile Cardinal: Reginald Pole and his Apologia

5. Osorio and Machiavelli: From Open Hostility to Covert Approbation

6. Machiavelli and the Index of Prohibited Books

7. Machiavelli’s Keenest Readers: The Early Translators

PART II. THE RHETORIC OF HATE

8. In Praise of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

9. Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli’s ‘Maximes tyranniques’

10. In the Wake of Gentillet: Evolution of the ‘Machiavel’ Stereotype in France and England

11. More Machiavellian than Machiavel: The Jesuits and the Context of Donne’s Conclave

PART III. ADAPTATION, ATTACK, DEFENCE

12. Gentillet’s Final Assault: The ‘Contre-Machiavel’ of 1585

13. From Sublime to Ridiculous: Some Serious Readers of Machiavelli

14. Writers on the Art of War

PART IV. MACHIAVELLI AND NON-MACHIAVELLI

15. Paradoxes on the Reception of Machiavelli’s Military Thinking

16. Systematic Immorality: The Courtier’s Art

17. Systematic Fragmentation: The Vogue of the Political Aphorism

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