The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain

Howard demonstrates that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on early modern Spanish prose treatises.

Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that Machiavellian discoursehad a profound impact on Spanish prose treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After reviewing in chapter 1 Machiavelli's ideological restruc...