{"title":"«Uno mero esecutore delle cose che li erano ordinate da Dio»: Tasso's Godfrey and Machiavelli's Moses","authors":"Antonio Borrelli","doi":"10.5209/dmae.90376","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The essay analyzes the influence of the book of the Exodus on the representation of political relations between the Christian army and its captain, Godfrey of Bouillon, in Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata. The research will show how Tasso’s poem imitates the events of Moses in the government of the chosen people and reads the character of the prophet as a political leader who exercises sovereign power. This reading of Moses will be compared with the innovative one present in Niccolò Machiavelli’s Prince: the Machiavellian treatise presents the biblical prophet as a perfect example of a new prince who imposes his will even using weapons. The essay will highlight how the Machiavellian characterization of Moses influences the character of Tasso’s poem. These considerations will highlight the political use of one of the major biblical characters within the most important poetic work of the Counter-Reformation period and the role of the most controversial political treatise of the time in this new reading.","PeriodicalId":40181,"journal":{"name":"De Medio Aevo","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"De Medio Aevo","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5209/dmae.90376","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The essay analyzes the influence of the book of the Exodus on the representation of political relations between the Christian army and its captain, Godfrey of Bouillon, in Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata. The research will show how Tasso’s poem imitates the events of Moses in the government of the chosen people and reads the character of the prophet as a political leader who exercises sovereign power. This reading of Moses will be compared with the innovative one present in Niccolò Machiavelli’s Prince: the Machiavellian treatise presents the biblical prophet as a perfect example of a new prince who imposes his will even using weapons. The essay will highlight how the Machiavellian characterization of Moses influences the character of Tasso’s poem. These considerations will highlight the political use of one of the major biblical characters within the most important poetic work of the Counter-Reformation period and the role of the most controversial political treatise of the time in this new reading.
本文分析了《出埃及记》对托尔夸托·塔索的《自由的Gerusalemme liberata》中基督教军队及其首领戈弗雷(Godfrey of Bouillon)之间政治关系表现的影响。这项研究将展示塔索的诗是如何模仿摩西在选民政府中的事件,并将先知的性格解读为行使主权权力的政治领袖。这种对摩西的解读将与Niccolò马基雅维利的《君主》中的创新解读进行比较:马基雅维利的论文将圣经中的先知作为一个完美的例子,一个新的君主,他甚至使用武器来强加他的意志。这篇文章将强调马基雅维利式对摩西的刻画如何影响塔索诗歌的特点。这些考虑将突出在反宗教改革时期最重要的诗歌作品中一个主要的圣经人物的政治用途,以及在这个新的阅读中当时最具争议的政治论文的作用。