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Paradoxical Virtues: Intellectuals between the Court and the Academy in Agostino Mascardi’s Che la Corte è vera scuola non solamente della prudenza, ma delle virtù morali (1624)*
- Author(s):
- Paola Ugolini (see profile)
- Date:
- 2010
- Subject(s):
- Italian literature, Italy, Area studies, Philosophy, Renaissance
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- 17th Century, Italian studies, Renaissance philosophy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6D62P
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This article analyzes the oration Che la Corte è vera scuola non solamente della prudenza, ma delle virtù morali (1624), delivered at the Accademia degli Umoristi by Agostino Mascardi, a courtier, professor of rhetoric, and renowned member of academies. Mascardi’s oration has traditionally been read as a commendation of the court, and as proof of intellectuals’ willing submission to political powers in the seventeenth century. This article aims to challenge such a reading by proposing a reinterpretation of the text that suggests the oration is, in fact, paradoxical. This article also considers Che la Corte è vera scuola in relation to Mascardi’s other writings on courts, and investigates them in the larger context of the accademie of early seventeenth-century Rome in an attempt to shed light on the role that academies played for early modern Italian intellectuals in trying to define their relationship to political power.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
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