This paper joins the debate about the dating of The Prince. Putting the chapter XXI in relationship with the letters and the Relazione di Spagna by Francesco Guicciardini, it seems likely to date the first part of the chapter (par. 1-8) to the first months of the year 1514, while a comparison with Machiavelli’s own letters recommends to place the section about the war neutrality (par. 11-24) after December 1514. If we are right to suppose that the paragraphs about neutrality are chronologically so ahead, it is then possible to give a more coherent interpretation of the whole chapter, conjecturing a later insertion of them and connecting therefore the last paragraphs (25-27) - concerning the prince’s duties to the subjects - with the first ones, to which they are linked by remarkable textual and lexical consonances.
«Grande imprese» e «rari esempli». Una proposta di datazione di Principe XXI
BIASIORI L
2010
Abstract
This paper joins the debate about the dating of The Prince. Putting the chapter XXI in relationship with the letters and the Relazione di Spagna by Francesco Guicciardini, it seems likely to date the first part of the chapter (par. 1-8) to the first months of the year 1514, while a comparison with Machiavelli’s own letters recommends to place the section about the war neutrality (par. 11-24) after December 1514. If we are right to suppose that the paragraphs about neutrality are chronologically so ahead, it is then possible to give a more coherent interpretation of the whole chapter, conjecturing a later insertion of them and connecting therefore the last paragraphs (25-27) - concerning the prince’s duties to the subjects - with the first ones, to which they are linked by remarkable textual and lexical consonances.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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