LEADER 04080nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910455520303321 005 20210917032439.0 010 $a1-4008-2128-2 010 $a1-4008-1225-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821280 035 $a(CKB)111056486502526 035 $a(OCoLC)179121620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10035817 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000195084 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168264 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000195084 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241246 035 $a(PQKB)10322995 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3030276 035 $a(OCoLC)966814269 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse54262 035 $a(DE-B1597)474141 035 $a(OCoLC)51453590 035 $a(OCoLC)979581288 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821280 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3030276 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035817 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL928899 035 $a(OCoLC)923688802 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486502526 100 $a19931201d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMachiavellian rhetoric$b[electronic resource] $efrom the Counter-Reformation to Milton /$fVictoria Kahn 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1994 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-691-03491-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-310) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations and Note on Spelling and Translations --$tIntroduction --$tPart One: Machiavelli --$tOne: The Prince --$tTwo: The Discourses --$tThree: Rhetoric and Reason of State: Botero's Reading of Machiavelli --$tPart Two: English Machiavellism --$tFour: Reading Machiavelli, 1550-1640 --$tFive: Machiavellian Debates, 1530-1660 --$tPart Three: Milton --$tSix: A Rhetoric of Indifference --$tSeven: Virtue and Virtù in Comus --$tEight: Machiavellian Rhetoric in Paradise Lost --$tCoda: Rhetoric and the Critique of Ideology --$tAppendix: A Brief Note on Rhetoric and Republicanism in the Historiography of the Italian Renaissance --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aHistorians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virtù. Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is not simply the result of a naïve misreading of Machiavelli but is attuned to the rhetorical dimension of his political theory in a way that later thematic readings of Machiavelli are not. Her aim is to provide a revised history of Renaissance Machiavellism, particularly in England: one that sees the Machiavel and the republican as equally valid--and related--readings of Machiavelli's work. In this revised history, Machiavelli offers a rhetoric for dealing with the realm of de facto political power, rather than a political theory with a coherent thematic content; and Renaissance Machiavellism includes a variety of rhetorically sophisticated appreciations and appropriations of Machiavelli's own rhetorical approach to politics. Part I offers readings of The Prince, The Discourses, and Counter-Reformation responses to Machiavelli. Part II discusses the reception of Machiavelli in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England. Part III focuses on Milton, especially Areopagitica, Comus, and Paradise Lost. 606 $aRhetoric$xHistory 606 $aPolitics and literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRhetoric$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 676 $a320.1/092 700 $aKahn$b Victoria Ann$0614780 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455520303321 996 $aMachiavellian rhetoric$91132762 997 $aUNINA