Between friends : discourses of power and desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori letters of 1513-1515 /

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Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 to 1515 by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Vettori. John Najemy reveals the literary richness and theoretical tensions of the correspondence, the cruci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Najemy, John M., 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Colección:Princeton legacy library ; 5274.
Temas:
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527 > Correspondence.
Vettori, Francesco, > 1474-1539 > Correspondence.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, > 1469-1527
Vettori, Francesco, > 1474-1539
1268-1559
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Intellectual life
Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559.
Italie > Vie intellectuelle > 1268-1559.
Italy
Personal correspondence
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the letters in Machiavelli studies
  • Renaissance epistolarity
  • The social worlds of Florentine letter writing
  • Petrarch and the ancients
  • Humanists and their letter collections
  • Letters and literature
  • Manuals and theory
  • Contexts personal and political
  • The secretary and his letters
  • Francesco Vettori
  • Friendship and politics in the republic's crisis
  • "Formerly secretary"
  • "Discorsi et concetti" in exile
  • "A spirited maker of beginnings"
  • Speaking like Romans
  • "Some of it we just imagine"
  • "Naturale affectione o passione"
  • The Swiss and "the sweetness of domination"
  • The invention of redemptive virtu
  • The Prince "Addressed" to Francesco Vettori
  • What text did Vettori see?
  • "Verita effettuale" and "Imaginazione"
  • Security and Power
  • Intelligibility, Power, Love
  • Geta and the "Antiqui Huomini" (The Letter of 10 December 1513) 215 "Sed fatis trahimur"
  • Maestro Geta and his new "Scienza"
  • "Tucto mi transferisco in loro"
  • "A ridiculous metamorphosis"
  • "What kinds of writers could not be criticized?"
  • As worthy of being recited to a prince as anything I have heard this year"
  • Desire in the text
  • "After a thousand years"
  • "These princes are men like you and me"
  • "To me alone Troy remains"
  • "To enlist you again in the old game"
  • Poetry and politics
  • Corydon in San Casciano
  • Metamorphosis in the text
  • Epilogue: the poets of the discourses.

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