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registration at the Oxford Machiavelli Conference closes at midnight today. Best regards, Nicola Gardini
Machiavelli’s 'Prince': Tradition and Translation
Friday 22 November – Saturday 23 November 2013
Keble College, University of Oxford
Programme ‚ Registration
(Registration is open until 19 November 2013)
Convenors: Nicola Gardini and Martin McLaughlin
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Machiavelli finished writing his treatise De Principatibus in 1513. As is obvious from the numerous debates around this political treatise produced over the past 500 hundred years, one could hardly think of a text whose reception has been more controversial and apparently more essential to the fashioning of modernity. This conference is aimed at exploring the “double” tradition of The Prince, by focusing on two fundamental aspects:
1) the textual tradition of the work, including the philological history of the Prince and translations of it into foreign languages (English and other translations, with their cultural adaptations and re-conceptualizations of the original);
2) The Prince’s own ways of appropriating ancient and modern traditions of political thought. Despite its obvious modernity, Machiavelli’s treatise looks backwards to classical texts and ancient history as well as to the medieval and humanist tradition of advice books for rulers and more recent historical-political events.
Keynote speakers
Professor Robert Black (Professor of Renaissance History, University of Leeds)
Professor Riccardo Fubini (Emeritus Professor of Renaissance History, University of Florence)
Professor Giorgio Inglese (Professor of Italian Literature, University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Professor Ritchie Robertson (Taylor Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford)
This event is sponsored by the Modern Humanities Research Association, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin) and David Rowe
Date:
Friday, November 22, 2013 to Saturday, November 23, 2013
Nicola Gardini
Keble College
Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PG
www.nicolagardini.com
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