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Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy - Historiography and Princely Ideology (Hardcover)
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Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy - Historiography and Princely Ideology (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
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Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history,
relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern
era. This means of resistance against power was prevalent during
the Renaissance, and the Italian fifteenth century, in particular,
can be regarded as an 'age of plots'. This book offers the first
full-length investigation of Italian Renaissance literature on the
topic of conspiracy. This literature covered a range of different
genres and it enjoyed widespread diffusion during the second half
of the fifteenth century, when the development of this literary
production was connected with the affirmation of centralized
political thought and princely ideology in Italian states. The
centrality of conspiracies also emerges in the sixteenth century in
Machiavelli's work, where the topic is closely interlaced with
problems of building political consensus and management of power.
This volume presents case studies of the most significant humanist
texts (representative of different states, literary genres, and of
prominent authors-Alberti, Poliziano, Pontano-and minor, yet
important, literati), and it also investigates Machiavelli's
political and historical works. Through interdisciplinary analysis,
this study traces the evolution of literature on plots in early
Renaissance Italy. It points out the key function of the classical
tradition and the recurring narrative approaches, the
historiographical techniques, and the ideological angles that
characterize the literary transfiguration of the topic. This volume
also offers a reconsideration of the complex facets of humanist
political literature that played a crucial role in the development
of a new theory of statecraft.
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