Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton

by Victoria Ann Kahn and Victoria Kahn

Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic virt . Machiavellian Rhetoric argues in contrast that Renaissance readers were right to see Machiavelli as a Machiavel, a figure of force and fraud, rhetorical cunning and deception. Taking the rhetorical Machiavel as a point of departure, Victoria Kahn argues that this figure is not simply the result of a na ve misreading of Machiavelli...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691034915
• ISBN13: 9780691034911
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.8" x 10.0"