Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence

ISBN-13: 9781433134289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str.

James O. Ward

Opis

Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence offers the first systematic study of an important and heretofore insufficiently-studied phenomenon in Renaissance Europe.

Recenzje

"This book will be of great interest to students in political theory and the history of political thought. The so-called lettura obliqua of Machiavelli's masterpiece has a long history; however, this is the first time that this reading has been proposed in a radically new way, taking into account how Machiavelli's friends would have read the Prince soon after its completion. The way Ward deals with the tradition of innuendo is something entirely new and will spark a lively debate among scholars of Machiavelli."-Paolo Carta, Professor of the History of Political Thought, The University of Trento

Spis treści

List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Preface - Introduction - Reading Machiavelli Rhetorically: The Prince as Covert Criticism of the Renaissance Prince - Florentia capta: Michelangelo's Sagrestia Nuova as Covert Critique of Medici Rule - The Compagnia della Cazzuola as Locus of Opposition to Medici Rule - An Academy of Misers: The Compagnie della Lesina and Antilesina as Loci of Opposition to Medici and Imperial Rule in mid-Cinquecento Italy - Index.

O autorze

James O. Ward received his Ph.D. in Italian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently an independent scholar, living and working in New York City.