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King, Edward Leon.

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Rolling a stone for the Medici: Machiavelli's pedagogical service to the Medici family.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rolling a stone for the Medici: Machiavelli's pedagogical service to the Medici family./
Author:	King, Edward Leon.
Description:	500 p.
Notes:	Chair: Shannon Stimson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	History, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3187075
ISBN:	9780542294396

Rolling a stone for the Medici: Machiavelli's pedagogical service to the Medici family.
King, Edward Leon.

Rolling a stone for the Medici: Machiavelli's pedagogical service to the Medici family. - 500 p.

Chair: Shannon Stimson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2005.

This dissertation argues that the illocutionary force of Machiavelli's work remains largely misrepresented in the political science literature and makes three contextual claims that must be thought of as axiomatic to an appropriate understanding of what Machiavelli intended to accomplish in the "Prince" and the "Histories": (1) That Machiavelli intended the audience of his major works to be extremely limited. Rather than writing for a broad and a-historical audience, Machiavelli was concerned in his major writings to reach and educate a tiny and specific group of individuals. This audience comprised the Medici princes and the Medici patriarchs and partisans whose advice those princes would inevitably seek; (2) That each of Machiavelli's major literary works was dedicated to the goal of furthering the reputation of the Medici by convincing them that their best interests lay in founding a genuine republic in Florence. The most effective way for Machiavelli to provide such assistance to the Medici lay not in the contents of the literary works per se but rather as a close counselor and advisor to the princes. The works were therefore illustrative of his credentials for the task of instructor rather than directly informative themselves. That he failed to achieve this pedagogical position outside of the republican interregnum should not be taken to mean that he never accepted the need for close access to the Medicean center of power, nor that he ever denied the right of the Medici to rule the patria; (3) That the rhetorical choices Machiavelli made in the construction of his arguments are both extremely useful in determining his meaning and are largely neglected outside of a few students of rhetoric and Italian literature of the period. These choices include economic rhetoric specific to Florence's mercantile community as well as chivalric rhetoric that was centered on the allegorical poetry that was popular during Niccolo's lifetime.

ISBN: 9780542294396Subjects--Topical Terms:

925067
History, Medieval.

Rolling a stone for the Medici: Machiavelli's pedagogical service to the Medici family.
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