Conspiracy literature in early Renaissance Italy : historiography and princely ideology /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of 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.