Conspiracy literature in early Renaissance Italy historiography and princely ideology Celati, Marta 1981- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2021 2021 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations "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. 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. Marta Celati. Includes bibliographical references and index. Italian literature 15th century History and criticism Italian literature 16th century History and criticism Conspiracy in literature Politics in literature Littérature italienne 15e siècle Histoire et critique Littérature italienne 16e siècle Histoire et critique Complot dans la littérature Conspiracy in literature Italian literature Politics in literature 1400-1599 fast PQ4075 .C35 2021 850.9358109024 Conspiracy literature in early Renaissance Italy Celati, Marta, 1981- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021 First Edition. (DLC) 2020947374 (OCoLC)1178639601 Oxford modern languages and literature monographs 9780192608963 0192608967 9780191895999 0191895997 9780198863625 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/33459 EBLCP 201212 20260319183729.3 in00005720006 eng