ISBN: 9780199267767

Between 1513 and 1525 Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a series of works dealing with political, military, and historical matters. One of these (the ''Arte della guerra'') was published in 1521,… Mehr…

Between 1513 and 1525 Niccolo 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. Theycontinued 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 Europeanlanguage - 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 hisresearch 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 andtrenchant 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. | Machiavelli - The First Century by Sydney Anglo Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > World History > Medieval History P10103, Sydney Anglo<

2005, ISBN: 9780199267767

OUP Oxford, Hardcover, 776 Seiten, Publiziert: 2005-06-23T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780199267767, 1.06 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3337065, Medieval, Europe, History, Subject… Mehr…

OUP Oxford, Hardcover, 776 Seiten, Publiziert: 2005-06-23T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780199267767, 1.06 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3337065, Medieval, Europe, History, Subjects, Books, World History, Literary Theory & Movements, History & Criticism, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Countries & Regions, Government & Politics, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Political Science & Ideology, Constitution: Government & the State, Political Structure & Processes, Reference, Linguistics, OUP Oxford, 2005<

2005, ISBN: 9780199267767

Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2005