Essays on Machiavelli’s Conventional Piety, Literary Inspirations, and Pre-Christian Preoccupation

Maximilian Burkard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-7033-7 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on a selection of Machiavelli’s literary pieces, among which are the Mandragola, Belfagor, the Vita di Castruccio, the Epistola, and the Pastorale. As research into literary motif, it raises, across five essays, new evidence on Machiavelli’s sources and suggestions as to where he drew from them (including the works of Livy, Virgil, and Boccaccio). Of the two other essays included, one intimates the way in which Shakespeare seems to have reappropriated Machiavelli’s Mandragola in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in addition to Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale. The other is concerned with Mantegna’s Minerva Overcoming the Vices and proposes interpretative contexts for several of the painting’s iconographic details. This book will be of interest not only to those specialising in Machiavellian and Shakesperean literature, and the artwork of Mantegna, but also to those curious about how and why pre-Christian works have been drawn upon by subsequent Christian authors.

M. Burkard is currently an independent writer. He obtained a BA in musicology from Julius Maximilians Universität (Würzburg, Germany) and holds master’s degrees in both philosophy and musicology from Karl Franzens Universität (Graz, Austria). His current academic interests include, besides Machiavelli and Shakespeare, the Latin poets (e.g., Ovid, Lucretius, Vergil) and their later reception and reappropriation by Christian writers and painters more generally.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5275-7033-9 / 1527570339
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-7033-7 / 9781527570337
Zustand	Neuware