The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies in the Relations Between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer to T.S. Eliot |
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... Machiavelli's point of view was so different from that of Aristotle , St Thomas , and Savonarola that he did not suspect that his description of the Prince might have read like a monstrous travesty of the traditional description of the ...
... Machiavelli's point of view was so different from that of Aristotle , St Thomas , and Savonarola that he did not suspect that his description of the Prince might have read like a monstrous travesty of the traditional description of the ...
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... Machiavelli's ideas , serve instead to reinforce the conclu- sion that Sidney and Machiavelli were in essential agree- ment . ' 13 From the works of Sidney's friend , Fulke Greville , an impressive list has also been drawn of parallels ...
... Machiavelli's ideas , serve instead to reinforce the conclu- sion that Sidney and Machiavelli were in essential agree- ment . ' 13 From the works of Sidney's friend , Fulke Greville , an impressive list has also been drawn of parallels ...
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... Machiavelli's writings ; most of the time the villainous traits in the characters of their dramas are borrowed from ... Machiavelli's doctrines . There can be little doubt in the case of Marlowe , 5 52 whom Greene rebuked for having ...
... Machiavelli's writings ; most of the time the villainous traits in the characters of their dramas are borrowed from ... Machiavelli's doctrines . There can be little doubt in the case of Marlowe , 5 52 whom Greene rebuked for having ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Chaucer and the Great Italian Writers of the Trecento | 29 |
Machiavelli and the Elizabethans | 90 |
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