Roman monarchy and the Renaissance prince

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 13
PART I The Roman Princeps......Page 33
The Ciceronian critique of monarchy......Page 35
The Senecan theory of the prince......Page 42
Mirrors, vision and the figure of impersonation......Page 49
The practice and pleasures of conscience......Page 54
Persons, states, liberty and slavery......Page 57
The quality of mercy......Page 65
The princely medic......Page 69
Love, fear and tyranny......Page 70
The honourable and the useful......Page 73
Happiness and sadness......Page 75
The prince and fortuna......Page 77
PART II The Roman Theory and the Formation of the Renaissance Princeps......Page 85
The Roman theory and the rex in the Regnum Siciliae......Page 87
The Neapolitan jurists and the classical theory......Page 101
The applications of the classical theory......Page 102
The Roman theory and the rise of the signori......Page 107
Senecan ethics, the sovereign person and De clementia in the Duecento......Page 108
Senecan ethics and social violence in the work of Albertano of Brescia......Page 112
Senecan political theory and the formation of the podestà......Page 116
The signorial ideology......Page 122
PART III The Humanist Princeps in the Trecento......Page 129
Petrarch and Seneca......Page 131
Senecan political theory and the virtues of the rex......Page 133
Senecan tyranny......Page 145
The education of the prince......Page 149
CHAPTER 4 Princely humanism in the Italian civitas......Page 157
Humanist princely discourse in the later Trecento......Page 168
Salutati......Page 169
Salutati, Vergerio and the signore as princeps......Page 177
PART IV The Humanist Princeps from the Quattrocento to the High Renaissance......Page 183
CHAPTER 5 Princeps, rex, imperator......Page 185
The Senecan princeps in Viscontean Milan......Page 186
The Senecan princeps in Aragonese Naples......Page 195
The Senecan princeps in Hapsburg Europe......Page 208
PART V The Machiavellian Attack......Page 217
CHAPTER 6 The strategy......Page 219
Quintilianism in the High Renaissance......Page 224
The Quintilianism of Il Principe......Page 227
Status theory and the theory of the state......Page 243
Proving and refuting......Page 247
The theory of ornatus......Page 256
The visibility of ornaments......Page 258
CHAPTER 7 The battle......Page 272
Free and unfree states......Page 305
Conclusion......Page 324
Primary Sources......Page 329
Secondary Sources......Page 332
Index......Page 344