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The essay discusses Gabriel Naudé’s ideal of a censorship-free and publicly open library within Naudé’s intellectual environment consisting of some early modern veins of political theory and views to history.
Vesa Suominen
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Baltasar Álamos de Barrientos’ Tacito español, ilustrado con aforismos (1614) can be interpreted through a Foucauldian framework to explore shifts in early modern political thought.
Carolina Ferraro
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« L’ombre de Brutus » : l’action politique de Gaston d’Orléans et les valeurs de « l’ancienne Rome »
True to the memorialists and satirists of the seventeenth century, contemporary historiography generally assesses Gaston d’Orléans’s political activities of the 1630s with reference to ‘ancient Rome’s’ republican values, celebrated by Balzac and ...
Delphine Amstutz
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Disimular por aforismos: La Doctrina política civil de Eugenio de Narbona
In 1604 Eugenio de Narbona publishes an ambiguous and controverted book that goes quickly under the examination of the Spanish Inquisition and it is retired.
Alejandro Alvarado Fernández
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"First brought into order": cómo Edmund Bolton leyó a Tácito
This review examines the edition of Edmund Bolton’s commentary on the first six books of Tacitus’s Annals by Patricia Osmond and Robert Ulery. The editors’ reading and interpretation of Bolton’s treatise within the historiographic, political and social ...
Victoria Pineda
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Hobbes et Spinoza lecteurs de Tacite : histoire et politique
Tacitists use the historian’s work as a source of advice for rulers. Hobbes and Spinoza, however, use Tacitus’ accounts as materials with which to formulate their theory of affects and to explain the role they play in politics.
Marta Libertà De Bastiani
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“Meddling with Royal Hearts”: Interiority and Privanza (1598-1643)
This paper studies how seventeenth-century writers in Spain elaborated different conceptions of interiority in connection with the intimacy they imagined between the king and his favorite or privado.
Javier Patiño-Loira
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Los engaños del medrar. A propósito de Las harpías en Madrid
The Castillo Solorzano’s collection shows the scams organized by four women. The aim of this article is a new approach to the Courtly Novel. While providing amusement for the reader, they confirm the influence of political theory as Machiavelanism and ...
Mireia Aldomà
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This article analyses the literary genre of historical-political commentary typical of Renaissance political literature, emphasising the importance of its essentially Florentine origins.
Andrea Salvo Rossi
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The Meaning of Tacit Knowledge
Tacit knowledge definitions tend to be extremely varied. Some argue that tacit knowledge is precisely that. Others feel that only time and effort prevent all tacit knowledge from eventually becoming articulated. For the purposes of our research “tacit knowledge”, in practice at least, encompasses a medium ground, being comprised of articulable and ...
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