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4011758 No.4011758 [Reply] [Original]

I'm reading "I Wear The Black Hat" by Chuck Klosterman and early on in it he states that there's an "ever-encroaching consensus" that The Prince is likely a satirical work. I posited this theory in a political science class almost two years ago (to the effect that it was to undermine the de Medicis or something, I've forgotten and was probably wrong) and, while the prof thought it was an interesting proposition, he didn't give it much credence.

Does anyone else on /lit/ believe The Prince was more sarcastic than we traditionally take it for?

>> No.4011766

I do but I always get unbelievable amounts of shit for posting that here so fuck if I'm gonna stick around for this thread.

>> No.4011769

>>4011758
if you read it in the italian machiavelli is constantly making puns and calling the reader an idiot, so probably
he was also a republican

>> No.4011779

>>4011758
Chuck Klosterman is a piece of shit

>> No.4011791

>>4011779
i haven't read anything by chuck klosterman, but i googled a picture of him and he does look a lot like a piece of shit

>> No.4011822

>>4011791
That's always been a sound base to make an assumption.

>> No.4011951

The Art of War is also a satire of know-it-all chinkies

>> No.4011958

>>4011758
Everything Machiavelli wrote both before and after The Prince is pro-republican, so it's pretty likely that it's satire (unless he suddenly changed his mind for a very brief period of time only to return to his original position).