ITAL 6671
Power & Success in Renaissance
Power and Success in the Renaissance
The objective of the course is to examine the concepts of power and the strategies for success in Machiavelli's Principe and Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano. As well, we will investigate how politics, art and the pen constitute instruments of distinction in Aretino, Lorenzo de' Medici and Michelangelo. (1 Unit)
Required Text: Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe. Con un saggio di Raymond Aron. Milano: BUR, 2005 (ventitreesima edizione).
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructor.
The objective of the course is to examine the concepts of power and the strategies for success in Machiavelli's Principe and Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano. As well, we will investigate how politics, art and the pen constitute instruments of distinction in Aretino, Lorenzo de' Medici and Michelangelo. (1 Unit)
Required Text: Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe. Con un saggio di Raymond Aron. Milano: BUR, 2005 (ventitreesima edizione).
Additional reading materials will be provided by the instructor.