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MACHIAVELLI
AND THE DISCOURCE OF LITERATURE

Albert Russell Ascoli and Victoria Khan, eds.

 
 

Cornell Unv. Press, Ithaca, 1993, 296 pgs., index, paperback

 
 

Reviwer comment. This book contains 11 essays on various aspects of Machiavelli as a litterary figure. Machiavelli's opinion of himself in this role and his comments about this are well described by the editors in their introduction.

 
 

Introduction

 
 

One - Carlo Dionisotti - Machiavelli, Man of Letters

 
 

Two - John M. Najemy - Machiavelli and Geta: Men of Letters

 
 

Three - Giulio Ferroni - "Transformation" and "Adaptation" in Machiavelli's Mandragola

 
 

Four -Ronald L. Martinez - Benefit of Absence: Machiavellian Valediction in Cliza

 
 

Five - Ezio Rimondi - The Politician and the Centaur

 
 

Six - John Freccero - Medusa and the Madonna of Forli: Political Sexuality in Machiavelli

 
 

Seven - Barbara Spackman - Politics on the Warpath - Machiavelli's Art of War

 
 

Eight -Victoria Kahn - Virtu amd the Example of Agathocles in Machiavelli's Prince

 
 

Nine - Albert Russell Ascoli - Machiavelli's Gift of Counsel

 
 

Ten - Giuseppe Mazzotta - Michiavelli and Vico

 
 

Eleven - Nancy S. Struever - Purity as Danger Gramsci's Machiavelli, Croce's Vico

 

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