Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy: Historiography and Princely Ideology. Marta Celati. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvi + 290 pp. $90

• Published in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 1094 - 1095
• Main Author: Basile, Gaston Javier
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Conspiracy; Fiction; Genre; Historiography; Ideology; Literary criticism; Italy

Here Celati revisits the mainstream interpretation of Alberti's work as sympathetic toward Porcari and critical of the pope's pontificate by showing that Alberti's views on the conspirators, despite the apparent disapproval of the papal government, are unmistakably negative. The stren...