Between Friends : : Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 / / John M. Najemy.

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 cruci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5274
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION: The Letters in Machiavelli Studies
  • CHAPTER ONE: Renaissance Epistolarity
  • CHAPTER TWO: Contexts Personal and Political
  • CHAPTER THREE: "Formerly Secretary"
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Speaking like Romans
  • CHAPTER FIVE : The Prince "Addressed" to Francesco Vettori
  • CHAPTER SIX: Geta and the "Antiqui Huomini" (The Letter of 10 December 1513)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN: "A Ridiculous Metamorphosis"
  • CHAPTER EIGHT: "After a Thousand Years"
  • CHAPTER NINE: Poetry and Politic
  • EPILOGUE: The Poets of the Discourses
  • Index