Lorenzo Di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli
Subtitle: Patron, Client, and the Pistola Fatta per la Peste/an Epistle Written Concerning the Plague
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781442644243
Subjects: Machiavelli, niccolo, 1469-1527; Authors, italian; Authors, biography
Description: "A younger, fabulously wealthy Florentine gentleman, Strozzi contributed to Machiavelli's restoration and aided many of his post-1520 achievements. This book offers the first biography of Strozzi available in English, as well as the first examination of the patron-client relationship that developed between the two men. Through wide-ranging textual investigations, William J. Landon reveals Strozzi's influence on Machiavelli. The volume also includes the first critical edition and English translation of Strozzi's Pistola fatta per la peste - a work that survives as a Machiavelli autography."--Inside flaps of dust jacket.