Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince
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- Author: Peter Stacey, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: January 2012
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- isbn: 9780521205382
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Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's theory of monarchy in the treatise De clementia, in this 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.
Read more- Spans the classical, medieval and Renaissance periods
- Provides a controversial account of Machiavelli's Renaissance masterpiece The Prince
- Questions widely held assumptions about the nature of Renaissance political thought
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- Date Published: January 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521205382
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Roman princeps:
1. The Roman theory of monarchy
Part II. The Roman Theory and the Formation of the Renaissance princeps:
2. (a) The Roman theory and the rex in the Regnum Siciliae
(b) The Roman theory and the rise of the signori
Part III. The Humanist princeps in the Trecento:
3. Royal humanisim in the Regnum Siciliae
4. Princely humanism in the Italian civitas
Part IV. The Humanist princeps from Quattrocento to High Renaissance:
5. (a) The Senecan princeps in Viscontean Milan
(b) The Senecan princeps in Aragonese Naples
(c) The Senecan princeps in Habsburg Europe
Part V. The Machiavellian Attack:
6. The strategy
7. The battle
Conclusion
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