Mimesis and Empire. The New World, Islam, and European Identities. Barbara Fuchs
teenth centuries. But, as the essays in this volume demonstrate, both their periodization and their subject matter make considerable sense and are important. After all, in the Spring of 1513 Machiavelli might sit at his farm, dressed in his robes of civil office and read Livy, but he still felt the pain of the torture he had undergone a few months earlier. And many far weaker and unluckier people did, too. They are also proper subjects for Renaissance study.