The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli,
well known as the author of The Prince, wrote not only grave,
cold-blooded political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables, and
letters that are seemingly lighthearted. What are we to make of the
two extremes in Machiavelli's writings? This volume brings together
outstanding scholars in the fields of literature, political
science, and history to explore the meanings of Machiavelli's
literary works, the light as well as the dark. Contemplating the
comic and tragic in Machiavelli, the contributors offer new
perspectives on his obsessions, intentions, and capabilities and
reveal through sometimes opposing visions off their subject much
about his political-historical treatises as well.
The nine essays in the book consider nearly all of Machiavelli's
literary and dramatic works, including the lively and ribald comedy
Mandragola, the comic play Clizia, the ambivalent poem "The Ass",
the symbolic Florentine Histories, and Machiavelli's fascinating
correspondence. The contributors to the volume -- among them Harvey
C. Mansfield, Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Franco Fido, and Ronald L.
Martinez -- do not always resolve their opposing visions of the
essentially tragic or comic Machiavelli, yet none contests the
weight of his insights into the world and especially into the
actors on the great stage of politics.
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