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In English
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- I. St. Augustine’s Rhetoric of Silence Truth vs. Eloquence and Things vs. Signs -- II. A Seventeenth-century Theory of Metaphysical Poetiy -- III. Metaphysical Poetry and the Poetic of Correspondence -- IV. Notes on John Donne’s Alchemical Imagery -- V. Hell vs. Hell : From Dante to Machiavelli -- VI. Machiavelli: The Effective Reality of Things -- VII. Machiavelli : The Artist as Statesman -- VIII. Cromwell as Machiavellian Prince in Marvell's An Horatian Ode -- IX. Cromwell as Davidic King -- Index
Studies the Renaissance and the 17th century in two ways. The first four essays turn on problems of metaphor and style while the second group are about Machiavelli and Machiavellism and Andrew Maxwell