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Book The Story of Belfagor in Literature and Folk lore

Download or read book The Story of Belfagor in Literature and Folk lore written by William Edward Armytage Axon and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Belfagor  A Tale   Versified from the Prose of Machiavelli

Download or read book Belfagor A Tale Versified from the Prose of Machiavelli written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama

Download or read book The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama written by A. J. Hoenselaars and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely accepted that English Renaissance drama owes its extraordinary richness and variety to the blending of elements originating from the medieval heritage and classical and Italian dramatic traditions. This grafting of the "Italian world" onto the English Renaissance goes far beyond the conventional research of the literary sources. The articles in this collection explore English Renaissance drama through new and challenging aspects of influence and through investigations into classical and Italian theater. The volume moves from early Elizabethan to late Jacobean drama. The area of research ranges from New Classical Comedy to commedia erudita, from the Renaissance theory of tragedy and tragicomedy to the birth of pastoral drama and beyond.

Book Machiavelli

    Book Details:
  • Author : Menno Spiering
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9789051839968
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Machiavelli written by Menno Spiering and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Devil on Screen

Download or read book The Devil on Screen written by Charles P. Mitchell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil has been represented in many film genres, including horror, comedy, the musical, fantasy, satire, drama, and the religious epic, and in these works has assumed many shapes and forms. This book begins with a discussion of how the devil has been portrayed on stage, how that portrayal carried over to the big screen, and what are the standard elements of a satanic plot. Each entry in the filmography includes year of production, running time, writer, editor, cinematographer, producer, and director, evaluative rating, annotated cast list, plot synopsis, overall appraisal, and a spotlight on the actor playing Satan.

Book Machiavelli

Download or read book Machiavelli written by Robert Black and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. “Machiavellian” can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself was far more complex than this cliché. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of hugely influential political, military, and historical works, Machiavelli was also a vernacular poet, first-rank dramatist, and religious radical, rejecting not only the contemporary Catholic Church but Christianity itself. From champion of Florentine popular republicanism to political radical to conservative, Machiavelli explores the many facets of the man described as the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

Book The History of Fiction

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  • Author : John T. Dunlop
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1825
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The History of Fiction written by John T. Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeking Real Truths

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  • Author : Patricia Vilches
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9004158774
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Seeking Real Truths written by Patricia Vilches and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a multidisciplinary approach to Machiavelli's writings on government, his creative works and his legacy. It is meant for generalists seeking an introduction to Machiavelli and for specialists who are interested in a wide range of disciplinary views.

Book Machiavelli s Platonic Problems

Download or read book Machiavelli s Platonic Problems written by Guillaume Bogiaris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli is traditionally understood has a thinker who rejected Platonism in bulk. This book argues that even if it is correct to describe him as unsympathetic to Platonic thought, his philosophy addresses it in a deep and nuanced manner. In order to see this, one must first disentangle Machiavelli’s conversation with Plato from his criticism of Christian Florentine Neoplatonism. Once this is done, Machiavelli’s work reveals itself to engage key Platonic themes, such as love, the place of philosophical education in politics, and the relationship between policymaking and mythmaking. This engagement helps us further characterize and clarify essential concepts and axioms of Machiavellian thought, such as fortúna, virtue, the importance of self-reliance, and the proper sources of political knowledge.

Book The Cambridge History of Italian Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Italian Literature written by Peter Brand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-28 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy possesses one of the richest and most influential literatures of Europe, stretching back to the thirteenth century. This substantial history of Italian literature provides a comprehensive survey of Italian writing since its earliest origins. Leading scholars describe and assess the work of writers who have contributed to the Italian literary tradition, including Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, the Renaissance humanists, Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, pioneers and practitioners of commedia dell'arte and opera, and the contemporary novelists Calvino and Eco. The Cambridge History of Italian Literature sets out to be accessible to the general reader as well as to students and scholars: translations are provided, along with a map, chronological chart and substantial bibliographies.

Book Machiavelli

Download or read book Machiavelli written by Alexander Lee and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. ‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’ Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas? Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father’s penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher’s hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile. In doing so, Lee uncovers hitherto unobserved connections between Machiavelli’s life and thought. He also reveals the world through which Machiavelli moved: from the great halls of Renaissance Florence to the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, from the dungeons of the Stinche prison to the Rucellai gardens, where he would begin work on some of his last great works. As much a portrait of an age as of a uniquely engaging man, Lee’s gripping and definitive biography takes the reader into Machiavelli’s world – and his work – more completely than ever before.

Book Machiavelli

    Book Details:
  • Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1989-07-27
  • ISBN : 9780822309468
  • Pages : 522 pages

Download or read book Machiavelli written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan Gilbert.”—Dante Germino, The Journal of Politics “A most remarkable achievement.”—Felix Gilbert, Renaissance Quarterly

Book Feminist Interpretations of Niccol   Machiavelli

Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of Niccol Machiavelli written by Maria J. Falco and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Machiavelli in Love

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  • Author : Guido Ruggiero
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2007-02
  • ISBN : 0801885167
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Machiavelli in Love written by Guido Ruggiero and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book An Unlikely Prince

Download or read book An Unlikely Prince written by Niccolo Capponi and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolò Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469–1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges—at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hardnosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester. Capponi's intimate portrait of Machiavelli reveals his behavior as utterly un-Machiavellian, his vision of the world as limited by his very provincial outlook. In the end, Machiavelli was frustrated by his own political failures and utterly baffled by the success of his book The Prince.

Book Ottorino Respighi  1879 1936   an Annotated Bibliography

Download or read book Ottorino Respighi 1879 1936 an Annotated Bibliography written by Lee G. Barrow and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): An Annotated Bibliography provides documentation and annotation of all of this great composer's articles, books, theses, and dissertations with references to Respighi and his music published during the last century throughout the world. Lee G. Barrow provides a comprehensive general index as well as both a discography and an index of Respighi's compositions.

Book The History of Fiction

Download or read book The History of Fiction written by John Colin Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: