...HUGH GRADY University of Oregon 2000 Adams, Robert M., ed. The Prince: A Norton Critical Edition . By Niccolò Machiavelli. New York: Norton, 1977 . Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory . Eds. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University...

... of political life not unlike the political realism of Tacitus and Machiavelli. While attending to the complexities and problems of establishing its provenance, the essay excavates the tragic vision of political life at work in Torquatus — a version of politics that struck Dutch audiences as prescient in its...

.... In Hamilton’s exposition, Cicero’s withdrawal to Tuscu- lum forms the paradigm for political and philosophical isolations such as Machiavelli’s to San Casciano and Descartes’ first Meditations drafted in the remote West Frisian castle at Sjaerdema, but also prefigures other instances such as Jules...

... Vega, Félix. Selección de obras: “Fuente Ovejuna”; “El caballero de Olmedo”; “La dama boba.” Madrid: Club Internacional del Libro, 1998 . Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince: A Bilingual Edition . Trans. and ed. Mark Musa. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1964 . Mair, Charles. Tecumseh...

.... 4 The philosophical foundation of this account runs from Machiavelli, through Bodin, to Hobbes: Machiavelli represents the kind of raison d’état doctrines that justify a strong and autonomous state for the sake of its subjects; Bodin offers a theory of political sovereignty proper (as a theory...

... of its imperial progenitor” (168). The journey of this androgynous “donna italica” begins with Dante’s Purgatorio (1308–14) and develops through Petrarch’s canzone 128, “Italia mia” (1344), Machiavelli’s Il prin­cipe (1532), and Alfieri’s sonnet to Dante (1783), culminating with Leopardi’s...

... of its imperial progenitor” (168). The journey of this androgynous “donna italica” begins with Dante’s Purgatorio (1308–14) and develops through Petrarch’s canzone 128, “Italia mia” (1344), Machiavelli’s Il prin­cipe (1532), and Alfieri’s sonnet to Dante (1783), culminating with Leopardi’s...

... of its imperial progenitor” (168). The journey of this androgynous “donna italica” begins with Dante’s Purgatorio (1308–14) and develops through Petrarch’s canzone 128, “Italia mia” (1344), Machiavelli’s Il prin­cipe (1532), and Alfieri’s sonnet to Dante (1783), culminating with Leopardi’s...

... of its imperial progenitor” (168). The journey of this androgynous “donna italica” begins with Dante’s Purgatorio (1308–14) and develops through Petrarch’s canzone 128, “Italia mia” (1344), Machiavelli’s Il prin­cipe (1532), and Alfieri’s sonnet to Dante (1783), culminating with Leopardi’s...

... of its imperial progenitor” (168). The journey of this androgynous “donna italica” begins with Dante’s Purgatorio (1308–14) and develops through Petrarch’s canzone 128, “Italia mia” (1344), Machiavelli’s Il prin­cipe (1532), and Alfieri’s sonnet to Dante (1783), culminating with Leopardi’s...

... pathway for self-consciousness outside of subjectivity’s double bind? Most scholars’ interpretations of Hegelian thought derive from the famous reflection on master-slave dialectics, but we can trace the origin of this process to the Jena Philosophies, where Hegel states, in reference to Machiavelli’s...

... words on the page and action in the world became dynamic rather than durable conveyers of meaning, and Italian humanists such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Baldassare Castiglione specifically advised courtiers and princes to manage and manipulate this gap between appearance and reality. Theologians...

... to Italians the revolutionary concept that the tombs of Santa Croce—final resting place of Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Galileo, and other heroes—are sites of national value that demand physical com- munion and spiritual homage in the name of a common Italian culture they incarnate. Like most Italian...

... of Sophonisba as a struggle with destiny, but for Trissino, who had listened to Machiavelli’s lec- tures on Livy during his exile in Florence, the lot of mortals was to endure for- tuna with virtù. Although it may seem odd to us that Sofonisba’s death should be given such scope in this play, early...