Is 'the Prince' really a political treatise? A discussion of Machiavelli's motivations for writing 'the Prince'

Jean-Louis Fournel (1, 2)

1 TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique
2 LER - Laboratoire d'études romanes

"This contribution intends to consider the problems surrounding the literary genre of The Prince by questioning its unanimous classification as a classical political treatise. The study is conducted on two levels through an examination of factors that are internal and external to the text.(...)." http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/0161462214Z.00000000025

Mots clés: Chancellery; argumentation; causality; treatise; dialogue; effectual truth; literary genre; conversation; orality and writing; reading of the ancients; history of the present; qualità dei tempi; exile; writings post res perditas

Domaines: Histoire; Science politique; Littératures

Jean-Louis Fournel. Is 'the Prince' really a political treatise? A discussion of Machiavelli's motivations for writing 'the Prince'. Italian Culture, 2014, 32 (2), pp.85-97. ⟨10.1179/0161462214Z.00000000025⟩. ⟨halshs-01067198⟩