Howard demonstrates that Machiavellian discourse had a profound
impact on early modern Spanish prose treatises. Arguing against
historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent
developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to
the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that
Machiavellian discoursehad a profound impact on Spanish prose
treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After
reviewing in chapter 1 Machiavelli's ideological restructuring of
the language of European political thought, in chapter 2 Dr. Howard
shows how, before his works were prohibited in Spain in 1583,
Spaniards such as Fadrique Furio Ceriol and Balthazar Ayala used
Machiavelli's new vocabulary and theoretical framework to develop
an imperial discourse that would be compatible with a militant
understanding of Catholic Christianity. In chapters 3, 4 and 5 he
demonstrates in detail how Giovanni Botero, Pedro de Ribadeneyra,
and their imitators in the anti-Machiavellian reason-of-state
tradition in Spain, attack a straw figure of Machiavelli that they
have invented for their own rhetorical and ideological purposes,
while they simultaneously incorporate key Machiavellian concepts
into their own advice. Keith David Howard is an Assistant Professor
of Spanish at Florida State University.
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