| Description |
1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs |
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Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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| Contents |
Orazio Romano's Porcaria: humanist epic as a vehicle for papal-princely ideology -- Leon Battista Alberti's Porcaria coniuration: the Epistle as an unresolved reflection on the political plot -- Giovanni Pontano's De bello Neapolitano: the Historia of the conspiracy in political theory -- Angelo Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium: the conspiracy narrative as 'official' historiography -- The conspiracy against the prince: political perspective and literary patterns in texts on plots -- 'Congiure contro a uno principe': Machiavelli and humanist literature |
| Summary |
"The present work represents the first full-length investigation of Italian Renaissance literature on the topic of conspiracy. This literary output consists of texts belonging to different genres that enjoyed widespread diffusion in the second half of the fifteenth century, when the development of these literary writings proves to be closely connected with the affirmation of a centralized political thought and princely ideology in Italian states. The centrality of the issue of conspiracies in the political and cultural context of the Italian Renaissance emerges clearly also in the sixteenth century in Machiavelli’s work, where the topic is closely interlaced with the problems of building political consensus and the management of power. This monograph focuses on the most significant Quattrocento texts examined as case studies (representative of different states, literary genres, and of both prominent authors—Alberti, Poliziano, Pontano—and minor but important literati) and on Machiavelli’s works where this political theme is particularly pivotal, marking a continuity, but also a turning point, with respect to the preceding authors. Through an interdisciplinary analysis across literature, history, philology and political philosophy, this study traces the evolution of literature on plots in early Renaissance Italy, pointing out the key function of the classical tradition in it, and the recurring narrative approaches, historiographical techniques, and ideological angles that characterize the literary transfiguration of the topic. This investigation also offers a reconsideration and re-definition of the complex facets of fifteenth-century political literature, which played a crucial role in the development of a new theory of statecraft"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
Italian literature -- 15th century -- History and criticism
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Italian literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Conspiracy in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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Conspiracy in literature
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Italian literature
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Politics in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192608963 |
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0192608967 |
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9780191895999 |
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0191895997 |
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