Lorenzo Di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

Patron, Client, and the Pistola Fatta Per La Peste/an Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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By 1520, NiccolÒ Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), a younger and fabulously wealthy Florentine nobleman. As manuscript evidence suggests, Strozzi brought Machiavelli into his patronage network and aided many of his post-1520 achievements.This book is the first English biography of Strozzi, as well as the first examination of the patron-client relationship that developed between the two men. William J. Landon reveals Strozzi’s influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste – a work that survives as a Machiavelli autograph, and for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-08-27
Mått158 x 237 x 24 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieToronto Italian Studies
Antal sidor296
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442644243

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Chapter One: The Life of Lorenzo di Filippo StrozziChapter Two: Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and NiccolÒ MachiavelliChapter Three: A History of the Pistola fatta per la peste: Its Manuscripts, Publication History and a Close Reading of the TextConclusion: Pistola, Patron, Client and the Proposed Strozzi Marriage of 1525Figures:Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi’s Pistola fatta per la peste: An Italian Edition and an English Translation of the TextAppendix One: Appendix One: Supplemental Transcriptions from Banco Rari 29Appendix Two: Francesco Zeffi’s “Vita” Of Lorenzo di Filippo StrozziAppendix Three: A Recipe for an Antidote against the Plague by Mengo BianchelliAppendix Four: NiccolÒ Machiavelli’s Minuta di Provvisione per la Riforma dello Stato di Firenze L’Anno 1522Bibliography

‘Strozzi and Machiavelli has many merits. It provides an original and lucid biography of Lorenzo Strozzi, a detailed discussion of the Strozzi-Machiavelli relationship, and critical editions and translations of several texts that circulated in Strozzi’s circle, thereby shedding light on the particularly dynamic intellectual context of Florence in the first half of the sixteenth century.’- Mark Jurdjevic (Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:04:2014) ‘This elegant, short book presents an obscure text by a little-known figure to a new audience. Both the analysis and the text should attract the interest of a variety of scholars, both of history and literature.’- Nicholas Scott Baker (The Journal of Modern History vol 87:03:2015)