The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-85566-282-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 338, 181 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Monografías A

Howard demonstrates that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on early modern Spanish prose treatises.

Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that Machiavellian discoursehad a profound impact on Spanish prose treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After reviewing in chapter 1 Machiavelli's ideological restructuring of the language of European political thought, in chapter 2 Dr. Howard shows how, before his works were prohibited in Spain in 1583, Spaniards such as Fadrique Furió Ceriol and Balthazar Ayala used Machiavelli's new vocabulary and theoretical framework to develop an imperial discourse that would be compatible with a militant understanding of Catholic Christianity. In chapters 3, 4 and 5 he demonstrates in detail how Giovanni Botero, Pedro de Ribadeneyra, and their imitators in the anti-Machiavellian reason-of-state tradition in Spain, attack a straw figure of Machiavelli that they have invented for their own rhetorical and ideological purposes, while they simultaneously incorporate key Machiavellian concepts into their own advice.

Keith David Howard is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida State University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howard, Keith David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Medieval and Renaissance Humanist Political Discourse and Machiavelli
Machiavelli and Spanish Imperialist Discourse in the Sixteenth Century
Machiavelli and the Foundations of the Spanish Reason-of-State Tradition: Giovanni Botero and Pedro de Ribadeneyra
Machiavellian Discourse in the Hispanic Baroque Reason-of-State Tradition
Juan Pablo Mártir Rizo's Rereading of the Prince
Conclusion
Bibliography