Asino e asini. Una lunga storia
Focusing on Machiavelli’s Asino, this essay aims to highlight possible intertexual references to the Florentine and the classical traditions. This paper will also analyse Machiavelli’s work within its sixteenth-century literary context : as I intend to prove, sixteenth-century texts bring to light t...
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| Language: | English |
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Nicola Catelli - Corrado Confalonieri
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Parole Rubate |
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| Online Access: | http://www.parolerubate.unipr.it/fascicolo13_pdf/F13_8_anselmi_asino.pdf |
| Summary: | Focusing on Machiavelli’s Asino, this essay aims to highlight possible intertexual references to the Florentine and the classical traditions. This paper will also analyse Machiavelli’s work within its sixteenth-century literary context : as I intend to prove, sixteenth-century texts bring to light the complex, double and grotesque nature of human action by means of such features as animality and naturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 2039-0114 |