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Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England - Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration (Paperback)
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Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England - Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration (Paperback)
Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
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Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging
upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume
highlights how topics and ideas stemming from Machiavelli's books -
including but not limited to the Prince - strongly influenced the
contemporary political debate. The first section discusses early
reactions to Machiavelli's works, focusing on authors such as
Reginald Pole and William Thomas, depicting their complex
interaction with Machiavelli. In section two, different features of
Machiavelli's reading in Tudor literary and political culture are
discussed, moving well beyond the traditional image of the tyrant
or of the evil Machiavel. Machiavelli's historiography and
republicanism and their influences on Tudor culture are discussed
with reference to topical authors such as Walter Raleigh, Alberico
Gentili, Philip Sidney; his role in contemporary dramatic writing,
especially as concerns Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare,
is taken into consideration. The last section explores
Machiavelli's influence on English political culture in the
seventeenth century, focusing on reason of state and political
prudence, and discussing writers such as Henry Parker, Marchamont
Nedham, James Harrington, Thomas Hobbes and Anthony Ascham.
Overall, contributors put Machiavelli's image in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century England into perspective, analyzing his role
within courtly and prudential politics, and the importance of his
ideological proposal in the tradition of republicanism and
parliamentarianism.
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