Six: A Rhetoric of Indifference

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations and Note on Spelling and Translations xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One: Machiavelli
8. One: The Prince 13
9. Two: The Discourses 44
10. Three: Rhetoric and Reason of State: Botero’s Reading of Machiavelli 60
11. Part Two: English Machiavellism
12. Four: Reading Machiavelli, 1550–1640 85
13. Five: Machiavellian Debates, 1530–1660 132
14. Part Three: Milton
15. Six: A Rhetoric of Indifference 167
16. Seven: Virtue and Virtù in Comus 185
17. Eight: Machiavellian Rhetoric in Paradise Lost 209
18. Coda: Rhetoric and the Critique of Ideology 237
19. Appendix: A Brief Note on Rhetoric and Republicanism in the Historiography of the Italian Renaissance 243
20. Notes 249
21. Index 311