Between Friends (eBook)

Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515

John M. Najemy (Autor)

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2019
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19461-5 (ISBN)

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Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 to 1515 by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Vettori. John Najemy reveals the literary richness and theoretical tensions of the correspondence, the crucial importance of the dialogue with Vettori in Machiavelli's emergence as a writer and political theorist, and the close but complex relationship between the letters and Machiavelli's major works on politics. Unlike previous and mostly fragmentary treatments of the correspondence, this book reads the letters as a continuously developing, collaborative text in which problems of language and interpretation gradually emerge as the critical issues.Najemy argues that Vettori's skeptical reaction to Machiavelli's first letters on politics and provoked Machiavelli into a defense of language's power to represent the world, a notion that soon become the underlying assumption of The Prince. Later, and largely through an apparently whimsical exchange of letters on love and the foibles of eros, Vettori led Machiavelli to confront the power of desire in language, which opened the way for a different, essentially poetic, approach to writing about politics that surfaces for the first time in the pages of the Discourses on Livy.John M. Najemy is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (North Carolina).Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Adapt • Albizzi • Antipope • Antithesis • aphorism • Ars Poetica (Horace) • Aulus Gellius • Bartolomeo Scala • Bernard Crick • Brunetto Latini • Cacciaguida • Calculation • caput • Cesare Borgia • Coluccio Salutati • Conflation • Conti • Cosimo de' Medici • Council of Pisa • cowardice • De rerum natura • desiderio • Disenchantment • elocutio • Eugenio Garin • Eunuchus • Externality • Falsity • familiaris • Fatalism • First appearance • flattery • Foray • Francesco Guicciardini • Gaspare • Genre • Giovanni Cavalcanti (chronicler) • Giuliano de' Medici • G. (novel) • good faith • Hans Baron • Heroides • Historia Calamitatum • hypocrisy • In Parenthesis • Irony • Jacques Derrida • J. G. A. Pocock • Juvenal • lapsus • Literary Theory • Lorenzo de' Medici • Lorenzo Valla • Lucretius • Machiavellianism • Macrobius • Marsilio Ficino • mercenary • Mr. • Mutatis mutandis • Niccolò Machiavelli • obscenity • Open secret • Papal appointment • Parody • Peace treaty • Persecution • petrarch • Plautus • Poetry • Poggio Bracciolini • Poliziano • pope alexander vi • Pope Julius II • Pope Pius II • Principate • Quentin Skinner • Quintilian • Rapprochement • Remedia amoris • Renaissance Art • Renaissance Philosophy • Rhetorica ad Herennium • ridicule • Salmacis (fountain) • Satires (Horace) • Secretum • Suetonius • Superiority (short story) • terence • The Machiavellian Moment • The Other Hand • The Praise of Folly • The Tale of Two Lovers • Tristia • unrequited love • V. • Veduta • Virtuous pagan • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19461-0 / 0691194610
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19461-5 / 9780691194615