Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance

Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 551
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783110472394
ISBN-13 : 3110472392
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance by : Patrick Baker

Download or read book Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance written by Patrick Baker and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance Related Books

Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 551
Authors: Patrick Baker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-20 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume exami
Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 504
Authors: Patrick Baker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-20 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume exami
Machiavelli
Language: en
Pages: 722
Authors: Joseph Markulin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The much-vilified Renaissance politico, and author of The Prince, comes to life as a diabolically clever, yet mild mannered and conscientious civil servant in
The Prince
Language: en
Pages: 126
Authors: Niccolo Machiavelli
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-14 - Publisher: Guiding Beam

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." The Prince, written by Niccolò Machiavelli, is a groundbreaking work in the genre of political p
The Art of War
Language: en
Pages:
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK