Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli : Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague /
Landon, William J.
Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli : Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague / William J. Landon. - 1 online resource (296 p.) : 6 b&w illustrations
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442644243 9781442699472
10.3138/9781442699472 doi
Authors, Italian--16th century--Biography.
Plague in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
PQ4634.S825 / Z75 2013
853/.3
Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli : Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague / William J. Landon. - 1 online resource (296 p.) : 6 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442644243 9781442699472
10.3138/9781442699472 doi
Authors, Italian--16th century--Biography.
Plague in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
PQ4634.S825 / Z75 2013
853/.3