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Between friends: discourses of power and desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori letters of 1513-1515
John M. Najemy
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page ix)
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Abbreviations (page xiii)
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INTRODUCTION: The Letters in Machiavelli Studies (page 3)
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CHAPTER ONE: Renaissance Epistolarity (page 18)
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The Social Worlds of Florentine Letter Writing (page 19)
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Petrarch and the Ancients (page 25)
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Humanists and Their Letter Collections (page 30)
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Letters and Literature (page 33)
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Manuals and Theory (page 42)
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CHAPTER TWO: Contexts Personal and Political (page 58)
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The Secretary and His Letters (page 58)
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Francesco Vettori (page 71)
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Friendship and Politics in the Republic's Crisis (page 82)
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CHAPTER THREE: "Formerly Secretary" (page 95)
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"Discoursi et concetti" in Exile (page 95)
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"A spirited maker of beginnings" (page 117)
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CHAPTER FOUR: Speaking Like Romans (page 136)
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"Some of it we just imagine" (page 136)
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"Naturale affectione o passione" (page 152)
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The Swiss and "the sweetness of domination" (page 156)
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The Invention of Redemptive Virtu (page 167)
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CHAPTER FIVE: The Prince "Addressed" to Francesco Vettori (page 176)
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What Text Did Vettori See? (page 177)
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"Verita effettuale" and "Imaginazione" (page 185)
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Security and Power (page 197)
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Intelligibility, Power, Love (page 201)
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CHAPTER SIX: Geta and the "Antiqui Huomini" (page 215)
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(The Letter of 10 December 1513) (page 215)
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"Sed fatis trahimur" (page 215)
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Maestro Geta and His New "Scienza" (page 221)
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"Tucto mi transferisco in loro" (page 230)
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CHAPTER SEVEN: "A Ridiculous Metamorphosis" (page 241)
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"What kinds of writers could not be criticized?" (page 241)
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"As worthy of being recited to a prince as anything I have heard this year" (page 253)
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Desire in the Text (page 271)
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CHAPTER EIGHT: "After a Thousand Years" (page 277)
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"These princes are men like you and me" (page 277)
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"To me alone Troy remains" (page 287)
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"To enlist you again in the old game" (page 295)
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CHAPTER NINE: Poetry and Politics (page 313)
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Corydon in San Casciano (page 313)
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Metamorphosis in the Text (page 319)
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EPILOGUE: The Poets of the Discourses (page 335)
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Index (page 351)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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RQ | 49.3 (Autumn 1996): 6256-27 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0034-4338%28199623%2949%3A3%3C625%3ABFDOPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C |
JMH | 67.4 (Dec. 1995): 956-957 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28199512%2967%3A4%3C956%3ABFDOPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P |
SP | 70.4 (Oct. 1995): 952-955 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28199510%2970%3A4%3C952%3ABFDOPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 |
AHR | 100.2 (Apr. 1995): 549 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199504%29100%3A2%3C549%3ABFDOPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B |
SCJ | 26.1 (Spring 1995): 182-183 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-0160%28199521%2926%3A1%3C182%3ABFDOPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W |
ENHR | 111.442 (Jun. 1996): 700-701 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199606%29111%3A442%3C700%3ABFDOPA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6 |
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Published: c1993
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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