The Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey (USA),

presents

A Symposium: Machiavelli in England

This symposium discusses the special significance of the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli for the development of English culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  From the time of Henry VIII down to the English Civil War, Machiavelli was quoted, argued about, caricatured, idolized and demonized by the English.  He became a stock character of the Elizabethan stage.

The speakers will show that there was something both Machiavellian and modern about the Machiavelli’s pre-eminence in English culture during the lifetimes of Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Milton.

Speakers:

William J. Connell (Seton Hall Univ.), Thomas More’s “Utopia” and Machiavelli’s “Prince”
Alessandra Petrina (University of Padua), Machiavelli at the time of Queen Elizabeth
Alessandro Arienzo (University of Naples), The English Machiavelli and Hobbesian Sovereignty: Reason vs. Prudence

To be held in Beck Rooms A-B, 5-7 p.m.  Open to the public.  Reception to follow.

For further information, please contact Barbara Ritchie, Secretary, The Charles and Joan Alberto Italian Studies Institute, Seton Hall University, 400 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079 USA.  Tel. 001/973.275.2928.  Barbara.Ritchie@shu.edu