Portraying The Prince In The Renaissance

Author : Patrick Baker,Ronny Kaiser,Maike Priesterjahn,Johannes Helmrath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110473377

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Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance by Patrick Baker,Ronny Kaiser,Maike Priesterjahn,Johannes Helmrath Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Hollingsworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643135472

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Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth Pdf

A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones—from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and from Isabella d'Este of Mantua to Lucrezia Borgia. Many of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held Renaissance society together—but whose tensions could spark feuds that threatened to tear it apart. A vivid depiction of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Renaissance, Princes of the Renaissance is a narrative that is as rigorous and definitively researched as it is accessible and entertaining. Perhaps most importantly, Mary Hollingsworth sets the aesthetic achievements of these aristocratic patrons in the context of the volatile, ever-shifting politics of an age of change and innovation.

Author : Orville Prescott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Italy
ISBN : 0049450093

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Princes of the Renaissance by Orville Prescott Pdf

Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:478774112

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Prince of the Renaissance by Desmond Seward Pdf

Author : David Marsh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674243941

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Giannozzo Manetti by David Marsh Pdf

Giannozzo Manetti was one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance, though today his works are unfamiliar in English. In this authoritative biography, the first ever in English, David Marsh guides readers through the vast range of Manetti’s writings, which epitomized the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento.

Author : Giuliano Mori
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198885931

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Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy by Giuliano Mori Pdf

While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical truth. Some authors equated historical truth with verisimilitude, thus harmonizing the quest for truth with other ingredients of their histories, such as their political utility and rhetorical aptness. Others, instead, rejected the notion of verisimilitude, identifying historical truth with factuality. Accordingly, they sought to produce bare and exhaustive accounts of all the things that pertained to their historical explorations, often resorting to innovative disciplines, such as archeology, philology, and the history of institutions. The humanist historiographical debate is especially significant because the notion of verisimilitude encompassed crucial elements required for the development of methods of critical assessment. By perceiving verisimilitude and factuality as irreconcilable, Quattrocento humanists reached a critical impasseâ€"those who were interested in factual truth mostly lacked the means to ascertain it, while those that developed embryonic notions of historical criticism were not eminently concerned with the factual account of the past. This critical weakness exposed humanists to considerable risks, including that of accepting non-verisimilar historical forgeries passed off as factual. Such forgeries eventually served as a testing ground for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars, who sought to restore factual truth by means of critical criteria grounded in verisimilitude, thus overcoming the humanist impasse. Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681959030

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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Machiavelli's The Prince was a battle for obtaining and maintaining power in 14th century Italy but it is surprisingly relevant to the understanding of business, politics and the nature of society.

Author : Galin Tihanov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783662623329

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Universal Localities by Galin Tihanov Pdf

The volume features the work of leading scholars from the US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Russia and presents an important contribution to current debates on world literature. The contributions discuss various facets of the historically changing role and status of language in the construction of notions of universality and locality, of difference, foreignness, and openness; they explore the relationship between world literature and bilingualism, supranational languages, dialects, and linguistic inbetweenness. They also examine the larger social and political stakes behind both foundational and more recent attempts to articulate ideas of world literature. Mapping the space between philology, anthropology, and ecohumanities, the essays in this volume approach world literature with sophisticated methodological toolkits and open up new opportunities for engaging with this important discursive framework.

Author : Patrick Baker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004339750

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Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing by Patrick Baker Pdf

A collection of essays and primary sources devoted to the tradition, methods, and functions of collective biography in early modern Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386402

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Neo-Latin and the Vernaculars by Anonim Pdf

This volume brings together case studies on key aspects of Neo-Latin and vernacular bilingualism in the early modern period, such as language choice, translations/rewritings, and the interferences between vernacular and Neo-Latin discourses.

Author : Desmond Seward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:1099730263

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Prince of the Renaissance by Desmond Seward Pdf

Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9786056849268

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The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli Pdf

The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good." To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was the only historical or political work printed during Machiavelli's lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. Many, Lorenzo, have held and still hold the opinion, that there is nothing which has less in common with another, and that is so dissimilar, as civilian life is from the military. Whence it is often observed, if anyone designs to avail himself of an enlistment in the army, that he soon changes, not only his clothes, but also his customs, his habits, his voice, and in the presence of any civilian custom, he goes to pieces; for I do not believe that any man can dress in civilian clothes who wants to be quick and ready for any violence; nor can that man have civilian customs and habits, who judges those customs to be effeminate and those habits not conducive to his actions; nor does it seem right to him to maintain his ordinary appearance and voice who, with his beard and cursing, wants to make other men afraid: which makes such an opinion in these times to be very true. But if they should consider the ancient institutions, they would not find matter more united, more in conformity, and which, of necessity, should be like to each other as much as these (civilian and military); for in all the arts that are established in a society for the sake of the common good of men, all those institutions created to (make people) live in fear of the laws and of God would be in vain, if their defense had not been provided for and which, if well arranged, will maintain not only these, but also those that are not well established.

Author : Olivier Bernier
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640191495

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Princes of the Renaissance by Olivier Bernier Pdf

Acclaimed art historian and Metropolitan Museum of Art lecturer Olivier Bernier brings vividly to life the dramatic, little-told stories of the great princes and princesses of Renaissance Italy - men and women named Borgia, Este, Farnese, and Medici.

Author : Jeanie Watson,Philip McM. Pittman
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0889464626

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The Portrayal of Life Stages in English Literature, 1500-1800 by Jeanie Watson,Philip McM. Pittman Pdf

Covering the years 1500 to 1800, these essays which portray life stages in English literature include studies of Erasmus, Fulke Greville, Johnson and Thomas More. They examine how the many ages of man are treated in the literature of this period.

Author : Jehanne D'Orliac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494071207

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Francis I by Jehanne D'Orliac Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.