William J Landon

Lorenzo Di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

Patron, Client, and the Pistola Fatta Per La Peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

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Produktbeschreibung

William J. Landon reveals Strozzi’s influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Critical edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442644243
• ISBN-10: 1442644249
• Artikelnr.: 37663960

Autorenporträt

By William J. Landon

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: The Life of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi
Chapter Two: Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli
Chapter Three: A History of the Pistola fatta per la peste: Its
Manuscripts, Publication History and a Close Reading of the Text
Conclusion: Pistola, Patron, Client and the Proposed Strozzi Marriage of
1525
Figures:
Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste: An Italian Edition
and an English Translation of the Text
Appendix One: Appendix One: Supplemental Transcriptions from Banco Rari 29
Appendix Two: Francesco Zeffi’s “Vita” Of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi
Appendix Three: A Recipe for an Antidote against the Plague by Mengo
Bianchelli
Appendix Four: Niccolò Machiavelli’s Minuta di Provvisione per la Riforma
dello Stato di Firenze L’Anno 1522
Bibliography