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RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1st. 1964

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Two groups of essays. The first are concerned with problems of metaphor and style and treat two important eras in literary history. The second group are concerned with Machiavelli and Maciavellism. 211 pages includes index.

A few marks to covers. Wrapper a little grubby to rear.

Stock no. 2110179

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Contents

  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • I. ST. AUGUSTINE'S RHETORIC OF SILENCE: TRUTH VS. ELOQUENCE AND THINGS VS. SIGNS
  • II. A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY THEORY OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
  • III. METAPHYSICAL POETRY AND THE POETIC OF CORRESPONDENCE
  • IV. NOTES ON JOHN DONNE'S ALCHEMICAL IMAGERY
  • V. HELL VS. HELL: FROM DANTE TO MACHIAVELLI
  • VI. MACHIAVELLI@ THE EFFECTIVE REALITY OF THINGS
  • VII. MACHIAVELLI: THE ARTIST AS STATESMAN
  • VIII. CROMWELL AS MACHIAVELLIAN PRINCE IN MARVELL'S 'AN HORATIAN ODE'
  • IX. CROMWELL AS DAVIDIC KING
  • INDEX

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