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Das Leben Nicolò Machiavellis: literarische Annäherung an eine unzeitige, widersprüchliche politische Biographie
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ISBN: 3921810493 Year: 1989 Publisher: Berlin Arsenal

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Machiavelli in Hell
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ISBN: 0691055386 9780691055381 0691008612 9780691008615 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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"In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker{u2019}s presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following his imprisonment and torture, the book turns to an examination of The Prince. The details of Machiavelli{u2019}s life never cease to weave in and out of the narrative, as we read how his ideas gather power and coalesce into a unified vision of humankind and the world."-- Cover page 4.


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Exemplum : the rhetoric of example in early modern France and Italy
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Year: 1989 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Princeton University Press

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Het nederlandse gezicht van machiavelli : twee en een halve eeuw interpretatie 1550-1800
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ISBN: 9065503293 Year: 1989 Volume: 8 Publisher: Amsterdam : Hilversum : Hilversum, Uitgeverij Verloren,


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Exemplum
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ISBN: 0691067821 1322018839 9781400860814 1400860814 9780691067827 0691602689 9780691602684 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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Examples, crucial links between discourse and society's view of reality, have until now been largely neglected in literary criticism. In the first book-length study of the rhetoric of example, John Lyons situates this figure by comparing it with more frequently studied tropes such as metaphor and synecdoche, discusses meanings of the terms example and exemplum, and proposes a set of descriptive concepts for the study of example in early modern literature. Tracing its paradoxical nature back to Aristotle's Rhetoric, Lyons shows how exemplary rhetoric is caught between often competing aims of persuasive general statement and accurate representation. In French and Italian texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries this dual task was rendered still more challenging by a transition to new sources of examples as the age of discovery brought increased emphasis on observation. The writers of this period were aware of a crisis in exemplary rhetoric, a situation in which serious questions were raised about how authors and audience would find a common ground in interpreting representative instances. Lyons's focus on the strategy of example leads to new readings of six major writers--Machiavelli, Marguerite de Navarre, Montaigne, Pascal, Descartes, and Marie de Lafayette.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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