Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Studies / Joseph Anthony Mazzeo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1964]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the Renaissance and the 17th century in two ways. The first four essays turn on problems of metaphor and style while the second group are about Machiavelli and Machiavellism and Andrew Maxwell.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

I. St. Augustine's Rhetoric of Silence Truth vs. Eloquence and Things vs. Signs

II. A Seventeenth-century Theory of Metaphysical Poetiy

III. Metaphysical Poetry and the Poetic of Correspondence

IV. Notes on John Donne's Alchemical Imagery

V. Hell vs. Hell : From Dante to Machiavelli

VI. Machiavelli: The Effective Reality of Things

VII. Machiavelli : The Artist as Statesman

VIII. Cromwell as Machiavellian Prince in Marvell's An Horatian Ode

IX. Cromwell as Davidic King

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88956-9

OCLC:

1100445735