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Creator
Date
[2017]
Location
Lanham, Maryland
Maryland
Maryland
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xviii, 217 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 352460
Folger call number: HN380.Z9 P63 2017
Folger holdings ID: 501059
Folger call number: HN380.Z9 P63 2017
Folger holdings ID: 501059
Summary
"This study examines the ways in which intellectuals of the Renaissance period sought to win the patronage of the powerful while maintaining independence. It analyzes the ethical dilemmas involved and how these were reflected in the lives and writings of Niccolo Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Michel de Montaigne"--Provided by publisher
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Introduction: An ingratiating world -- Background to the Renaissance culture of ingratiation -- Rhetoric and philosophy in the Renaissance : speaking well versus speaking truly -- Decorum -- Relations of power in Renaissance society : humanists and patrons -- Individuals -- Niccolò Machiavelli : a conflicted conception of manhood -- Desiderius Erasmus : an accommodating spirit -- Thomas More : ingratiation and its limits -- Michel de Montaigne : "self"-preservation -- Conclusion: From the Renaissance to the modern world
Also known as
Extended title: Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the present : the art and ethics of gaining favor / Jeff Diamond
Subjects
Related names
author: Diamond, Jeff
subject: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
subject: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
subject: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
subject: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
subject: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
subject: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
subject: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
subject: Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592