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Roman monarchy and the Renaissance prince / Peter Stacey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stacey, Peter, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Ideas in context ; 79.
- Ideas in context ; 79
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. De clementia.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Monarchy--Italy--History.
- Monarchy.
- Princes--Italy--History.
- Princes.
- Political science--Philosophy--History.
- Political science.
- Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559.
- Italy.
- Rome--Politics and government.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Roman Monarchy & the Renaissance Prince
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's theory of monarchy in the treatise De clementia, in this 2007 text Peter Stacey traces the formative impact of ancient Roman political philosophy upon medieval and Renaissance thinking about princely government on the Italian peninsula from the time of Frederick II to the early modern period. Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince offers a systematic reconstruction of the pre-humanist and humanist history of the genre of political reflection known as the mirror-for-princes tradition - a tradition which, as Stacey shows, is indebted to Seneca's speculum above all other classical accounts of the virtuous prince - and culminates with a comprehensive and controversial reading of the greatest work of renaissance political theory, Machiavelli's The Prince. Peter Stacey brings to light a story which has been lost from view in recent accounts of the Renaissance debt to classical antiquity, providing a radically revisionist account of the history of the Renaissance prince.
- Contents:
- The Roman princeps
- The Roman theory of monarchy
- The Roman theory and the formation of the Renaissance princeps
- The pre-humanist formation of the Renaissance princeps
- The humanist princeps in the trecento
- Royal humanism in the Regnum Siciliae
- Princely humanism in the Italian civitas
- The humanist princeps from the quattrocento to the high Renaissance
- Princeps, rex, imperator
- The Machiavellian attack
- The strategy
- The battle.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-17145-8
- 1-280-81574-4
- 0-511-27486-6
- 0-511-49074-7
- 0-511-27556-0
- 0-511-27333-9
- 0-511-32106-6
- 0-511-27412-2
- OCLC:
- 252535031
- Publisher Number:
- 9780521869898
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