RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Written by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul
in 1964
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- HISTORY
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- ESSAYS
- RENAISSANCE
RENAISSANCE AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES
Written by Joseph Anthony Mazzeo.
Stock no. 2110179
1st.
1964.
Hardback.
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.
Front cover
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