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Between friends: discourses of power and desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori letters of 1513-1515
Najemy, John M., 1943-
Year: c1993.
Publisher:  Princeton University Press. 
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table of contents
Frontmatter
Preface
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION: The Letters in Machiavelli Studies
CHAPTER ONE: Renaissance Epistolarity
The Social Worlds of Florentine Letter Writing
Petrarch and the Ancients
Humanists and Their Letter Collections
Letters and Literature
Manuals and Theory
CHAPTER TWO: Contexts Personal and Political
The Secretary and His Letters
Francesco Vettori
Friendship and Politics in the Republic's Crisis
CHAPTER THREE: "Formerly Secretary"
"Discoursi et concetti" in Exile
"A spirited maker of beginnings"
CHAPTER FOUR: Speaking Like Romans
"Some of it we just imagine"
"Naturale affectione o passione"
The Swiss and "the sweetness of domination"
The Invention of Redemptive Virtu
CHAPTER FIVE: The Prince "Addressed" to Francesco Vettori
What Text Did Vettori See?
"Verita effettuale" and "Imaginazione"
Security and Power
Intelligibility, Power, Love
CHAPTER SIX: Geta and the "Antiqui Huomini"
(The Letter of 10 December 1513)
"Sed fatis trahimur"
Maestro Geta and His New "Scienza"
"Tucto mi transferisco in loro"
CHAPTER SEVEN: "A Ridiculous Metamorphosis"
"What kinds of writers could not be criticized?"
"As worthy of being recited to a prince as anything I have heard this year"
Desire in the Text
CHAPTER EIGHT: "After a Thousand Years"
"These princes are men like you and me"
"To me alone Troy remains"
"To enlist you again in the old game"
CHAPTER NINE: Poetry and Politics
Corydon in San Casciano
Metamorphosis in the Text
EPILOGUE: The Poets of the Discourses
Index
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Title: Between friends : discourses of power and desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori letters of 1513-1515 John M. Najemy.
Author: Najemy, John M., 1943-
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Source Version: Between friends : discourses of power and desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori letters of 1513-1515 John M. Najemy. 
Najemy, John M., 1943-
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1993.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01794
Subject Headings: • Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527. -- Correspondence
• Vettori, Francesco, -- 1474-1539 -- Correspondence
• Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559
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