Congiure, tiranni e teste mozzate: Filippo de’ Nerli ‘allievo’ di Machiavelli

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Title: Congiure, tiranni e teste mozzate: Filippo de’ Nerli ‘allievo’ di Machiavelli
Authors: Carlo Varotti
Source: Griseldaonline, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 149-162 (2024)
Publisher Information: University of Bologna, 2024.
Publication Year: 2024
Collection: LCC:Literature (General)
Subject Terms: filippo de’ nerli, niccolò machiavelli, history of historiography, tyrant, tyrant murder, Literature (General), PN1-6790
Description: The paper analises the historical work of Filippo de’ Nerli (1476-1556), a fervent follower of Medici, who took part in the Orti Oricellari’s meetings. He was friend and correspondent of Machiavelli. Nerli and Machiavelli had very different political ideas, but Nerli seems to have well understood the Machiavelli’s lesson: and he is very proud about it. We can obtain this information from the telling of antityrannical plots in Nerli’s Commentari de’ fatti civili: the plot against cardinal Giulio de’ Medici (1522) and the plot organized by Lorenzino against Alessandro de’ Medici, the first Duke of Florence (1537). In both these cases, Machiavelli’ political lesson becomes a clever interpretation of human action, in witch Nerli reads the recent events of Florentine politics openly using the Machiavellian method: to read ancient history (and the biblical telling too) to define the rules useful to understand events and protagonists of recent historical events.
Document Type: article
File Description: electronic resource
Language: English
Italian
ISSN: 1721-4777
Relation: https://griseldaonline.unibo.it/article/view/19431; https://doaj.org/toc/1721-4777
DOI: 10.6092/issn.1721-4777/19431
Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/0308d52c17b348bc88390f1ae1c6b14a
Accession Number: edsdoj.0308d52c17b348bc88390f1ae1c6b14a
Database: Directory of Open Access Journals
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Abstract:The paper analises the historical work of Filippo de’ Nerli (1476-1556), a fervent follower of Medici, who took part in the Orti Oricellari’s meetings. He was friend and correspondent of Machiavelli. Nerli and Machiavelli had very different political ideas, but Nerli seems to have well understood the Machiavelli’s lesson: and he is very proud about it. We can obtain this information from the telling of antityrannical plots in Nerli’s Commentari de’ fatti civili: the plot against cardinal Giulio de’ Medici (1522) and the plot organized by Lorenzino against Alessandro de’ Medici, the first Duke of Florence (1537). In both these cases, Machiavelli’ political lesson becomes a clever interpretation of human action, in witch Nerli reads the recent events of Florentine politics openly using the Machiavellian method: to read ancient history (and the biblical telling too) to define the rules useful to understand events and protagonists of recent historical events.
ISSN:17214777
DOI:10.6092/issn.1721-4777/19431