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Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli : patron, client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/an epistle written concerning the plague / William J. Landon.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Italian Original language: Italian Series: Toronto Italian studiesPublisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442699472
  • 1442699477
Contained works:
  • Strozzi, Lorenzo di Filippo, 1482-1547. Pistola fatta per la peste
  • Strozzi, Lorenzo di Filippo, 1482-1547. Pistola fatta per la peste. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò MachiavelliDDC classification:
  • 853/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4634.S825 Z75 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter One: The Life of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi -- Chapter Two: Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli -- Chapter Three: A History of the Pistola fatta per la peste: Its Manuscripts, Publication History and a Close Reading of the Text -- Conclusion: Pistola, Patron, Client and the Proposed Strozzi Marriage of 1525 -- Figures:Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste: An Italian Edition and an English Translation of the Text -- Appendix One: Supplemental Transcriptions from Banco Rari 29 -- Appendix Two: Francesco Zeffi's "Vita" Of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi -- Appendix Three: A Recipe for an Antidote against the Plague by Mengo Bianchelli -- Appendix Four: Niccolo Machiavelli's Minuta di Provvisione per la Riforma dello Stato di Firenze L'Anno 1522.
Summary: William J. Landon reveals Strozzi's influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes the Italian text of Pistola fatta per la peste followed by the English translation on the facing page.

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Chapter One: The Life of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi -- Chapter Two: Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli -- Chapter Three: A History of the Pistola fatta per la peste: Its Manuscripts, Publication History and a Close Reading of the Text -- Conclusion: Pistola, Patron, Client and the Proposed Strozzi Marriage of 1525 -- Figures:Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste: An Italian Edition and an English Translation of the Text -- Appendix One: Supplemental Transcriptions from Banco Rari 29 -- Appendix Two: Francesco Zeffi's "Vita" Of Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi -- Appendix Three: A Recipe for an Antidote against the Plague by Mengo Bianchelli -- Appendix Four: Niccolo Machiavelli's Minuta di Provvisione per la Riforma dello Stato di Firenze L'Anno 1522.

William J. Landon reveals Strozzi's influence on Machiavelli through wide-ranging textual investigations, and especially through Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste for which Landon has provided the first ever complete English translation and critical edition.

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