Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance

The Humanist Depiction of Rulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts

Edited by: Patrick Baker , Ronny Kaiser , Maike Priesterjahn and Johannes Helmrath

Volume 44 in the series Transformationen der Antike

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110473377

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About this book

The portrayal of princes plays a central role in the historical literature of the European Renaissance. The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts. It emerges clearly that historical portrayals were not essentially bound by generic constraints but instead took the form of res gestae or historiae, discrete or collective biographies, panegyric, mirrors for princes, epic poetry, orations, even commonplace books – whatever the occasion called for. Beyond questions of genre, the chapters focus on narrative strategies and the transformation of ancient, medieval, and contemporary authors, as well as on the influence of political, cultural, intellectual, and social contexts. Four broad thematic foci inform the structure of this book: the virtues ascribed to the prince, the cultural and political pretensions inscribed in literary portraits, the historical and literary models on which these portraits were based, and the method that underlay them. The volume is rounded out by a critical summary that considers the portrayal of princes in humanist historiogrpahy from the point of view of transformation theory.

Author / Editor information

P. Baker, R. Kaiser, M. Priesterjahn, and J. Helmrath, Humbodt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Reviews

"Certainly this volume shows another face of humanism, which we can call “monarchical”: a face no less important than the “civil” or “republican,” which a certain tradition of studies, mainly focused on Florence, tends to represent as exclusive."
Fulvio Delle Donne in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. LXX, No. 3, pp. 1041 - 1043

"To conclude, Portraying the Prince is a refreshing complement to classic overviews [...], and provides greater richness and a more vibrant texture to the canvas of humanist historiography."
Astrid M. H. Nilsson in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review Blog (2017), www.bmcreview.org

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Virtues
Der Herrscher und die gute Ordnung. Das Bild Karls VII. in der französischen Historiographie am Übergang von der tradierten zur humanistisch geprägten Historiographie Thomas Schwitter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Charlemagne am Renaissancehof. Die Darstellung Karls des Großen in Paolo Emilios De rebus gestis Francorum Maike Priesterjahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Guter König, schlechter König? Die Darstellung Heinrichs V. und Heinrichs VI. von England in Polydor Vergils Anglica historia Stefan Schlelein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Alfonso ›the Magnanimous‹ of Naples as Portrayed by Facio and Panormita: Four Versions of Emulation, Representation, and Virtue Hester Schadee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
II. Cultural and Political Pretensions
Illyrian Trojans in a Turkish Storm: Croatian Renaissance Lords and the Politics of Dynastic Origin Myths Luka Špoljarić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Personelle Serialität und nationale Geschichte. Überlegungen zu den Herrschergestalten in Franciscus Irenicus’ Germaniae Exegesis Ronny Kaiser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Riccardo Bartolinis Austrias (1516) oder: Wie ein Herrscher zum Feldherrn gegen die Türken wird Florian Schaffenrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
III. Models Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Der Herrscher als zweiter Salomo. Zum Bild König Roberts von Anjou in der Renaissance Markus Schürer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Pier Candido Decembrio and the Suetonian Path to Princely Biography Gary Ianziti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Die Cosmias des Giovanni Mario Filelfo (1426–1480) Thomas Haye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Einhard reloaded. Francesco Tedeschini Piccolomini, Hilarion aus Verona, Donato Acciaiuoli und die Karlsbiographik im italienischen Renaissance-Humanismus Wolfgang Strobl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Auf den Spuren Paolo Giovios? Herrscherdarstellung in Jacobus Sluperius’ Elogia virorum bellica laude illustrium Marc Laureys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
IV. Method
Princes between Lorenzo Valla and Bartolomeo Facio Patrick Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Juan Páez de Castro, Charles V, and a Method for Royal Historiography Kira von Ostenfeld-Suske Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Picturing the Perfect Patron? Francesco Filelfo’s Image of Francesco Sforza Jeroen De Keyser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Verbis phucare tyrannos? Selbstanspruch und Leistungsspektren von zeithistorischer Epik als panegyrischem Medium im 15. Jahrhundert Christian Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
V. Critical Summary
The Description Makes the Prince: Princely Portrayal from the Perspective of Transformation Theory Albert Schirrmeister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Indices
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Index of Places Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of History, Classics, Reception Studies, Romance languages and literature, Renaissance Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 491
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 5
Keywords: Renaissance humanism; historiography; biography; epic

eBook

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110473377

Hardcover

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110472363