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Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance - The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts (Hardcover)
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Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance - The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts (Hardcover)
Series: Transformationen der Antike
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The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical
literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions
collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety
of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges
clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by
generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or
historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors
for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books -
whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the
chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of
ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the
influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social
contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this
book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and
political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the
historical and literary models on which these portraits were based,
and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a
critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in
humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation
theory.
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