The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli; Essays on the Literary Works
, by Sullivan, Vickie
- ISBN: 9780300087970 | 0300087977
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 8/11/2000
The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, well known as the author of The Prince, wrote not only grave, cold-blooded political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables, and letters that are seemingly lighthearted. What are we to make of the two extremes in Machiavelli's writings? This volume brings together outstanding scholars in the fields of literature, political science, and history to explore the meanings of Machiavelli's literary works, the light as well as the dark. Contemplating the comic and tragic in Machiavelli, the contributors offer new perspectives on his obsessions, intentions, and capabilities and reveal through sometimes opposing visions off their subject much about his political-historical treatises as well.
The nine essays in the book consider nearly all of Machiavelli's literary and dramatic works, including the lively and ribald comedy Mandragola, the comic play Clizia, the ambivalent poem "The Ass", the symbolic Florentine Histories, and Machiavelli's fascinating correspondence. The contributors to the volume -- am
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