The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Keith David Howard

Product details

• Authors: Keith David Howard
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781855662827
• ISBN: 978-1-85566-282-7
• No. of pages: 181
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Monografías a; Monografías a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Politik und Staat, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Südeuropa, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal