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“Meddling with Royal Hearts”: Interiority and Privanza (1598-1643) [PDF]
Culture & History Digital Journal, 2017 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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Informaatiotutkimus, 2021 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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« L’ombre de Brutus » : l’action politique de Gaston d’Orléans et les valeurs de « l’ancienne Rome »
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2021 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
Criticón, 2020 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
Talia dixit, 2020 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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Reading Lipsius in early modern Italy: Ercole Cato and the transformation of the Politicorum Libri Sex [PDF]
, 2022 Navigating the tension between moral virtue and realism in a ruler’s effort to preserve power, Justus Lipsius’ Politicorum libri sex (1589) was a foundational text in Catholic reason of state, but its ambiguous form and content leave it open for ...
Kattenberg, L.
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Hobbes et Spinoza lecteurs de Tacite : histoire et politique
Astérion, 2020 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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Henry savile’s tacitus and the english role on the continent: Leicester, hotman, lipsius [PDF]
, 2016 This article argues that Henry Savile’s widely admired Tacitus of 1591 should not be read as an implied call for a more aggressive English stance against Spanish advances on the Continent (as one recent article suggests), but precisely for a more ...
Waszink, J.H. (Jan)
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Los engaños del medrar. A propósito de Las harpías en Madrid
Criticón, 2019 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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Gracián Dantisco and the Culture of Secrecy in Hapsburg Spain [PDF]
, 2011 El tratado epistolar de buenos modales de Lucas Gracián Dantisco, El galateo español, representa un nexo temprano y decisivo en el debate sobre la disimulación en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII.
Armon, Shifra
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