Marta Celati is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and part-time Lecturer in Italian literature at the University of Oxford. She has worked as Teaching Fellow at the University of Pisa and in 2018 she was Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute. She was awarded a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Oxford and a doctorate in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Pisa. Her main research field is the Italian Renaissance, in particular political and historical literature. She has published a complete edition of Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium (2015) and articles on various authors and topics, such as the classical legacy in humanist works, the art of printing in fifteenth-century Italy, and the interaction between literature and visual culture.

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• Introduction 1: Orazio Romano's Porcaria: Humanist Epic as a Vehicle for Papal-Princely Ideology 2: Leon Battista Alberti's Porcaria coniuratio: The Epistle as Unresolved Reflection on the Political Plot 3: Giovanni Pontano's De bello Neapolitano: The Historia of the Conspiracy in Political Theory 4: Angelo Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium: The Conspiracy Narrative as 'Official' Historiography 5: The Conspiracy Against the Prince: Political Perspectives and Literary Patterns in Texts on Plots 6: 'Congiure contro a uno principe': Machiavelli and Humanist Literature Conclusion

Marta Celati is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and part-time Lecturer in Italian literature at the University of Oxford. She has worked as Teaching Fellow at the University of Pisa and in 2018 she was Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute. She was awarded a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Oxford and a doctorate in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Pisa. Her main research field is the Italian Renaissance, in particular political and historical literature. She has published a complete edition of Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium (2015) and articles on various authors and topics, such as the classical legacy in humanist works, the art of printing in fifteenth-century Italy, and the interaction between literature and visual culture.

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• Introduction 1: Orazio Romano's Porcaria: Humanist Epic as a Vehicle for Papal-Princely Ideology 2: Leon Battista Alberti's Porcaria coniuratio: The Epistle as Unresolved Reflection on the Political Plot 3: Giovanni Pontano's De bello Neapolitano: The Historia of the Conspiracy in Political Theory 4: Angelo Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium: The Conspiracy Narrative as 'Official' Historiography 5: The Conspiracy Against the Prince: Political Perspectives and Literary Patterns in Texts on Plots 6: 'Congiure contro a uno principe': Machiavelli and Humanist Literature Conclusion

Marta Celati is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and part-time Lecturer in Italian literature at the University of Oxford. She has worked as Teaching Fellow at the University of Pisa and in 2018 she was Frances Yates Fellow at the Warburg Institute. She was awarded a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Oxford and a doctorate in Medieval and Humanist Philology from the University of Pisa. Her main research field is the Italian Renaissance, in particular political and historical literature. She has published a complete edition of Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium (2015) and articles on various authors and topics, such as the classical legacy in humanist works, the art of printing in fifteenth-century Italy, and the interaction between literature and visual culture.

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• Introduction 1: Orazio Romano's Porcaria: Humanist Epic as a Vehicle for Papal-Princely Ideology 2: Leon Battista Alberti's Porcaria coniuratio: The Epistle as Unresolved Reflection on the Political Plot 3: Giovanni Pontano's De bello Neapolitano: The Historia of the Conspiracy in Political Theory 4: Angelo Poliziano's Coniurationis commentarium: The Conspiracy Narrative as 'Official' Historiography 5: The Conspiracy Against the Prince: Political Perspectives and Literary Patterns in Texts on Plots 6: 'Congiure contro a uno principe': Machiavelli and Humanist Literature Conclusion