{"product_id":"thomas-elyot-the-image-of-governance-and-other-dialogues-of-counsel-1533-1541","title":"The Image of Governance: and Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533-1541)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Elyot's \u003cem\u003eImage of Governance\u003c\/em\u003e is an English-language version of the matter of Thomas More's \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e: a tract \u003cem\u003ede optimo statu reipublicae\u003c\/em\u003e, likewise replete with imagined 'dialogues of counsel'; but in an anti-utopian, monarchist perspective, calculated to appeal to Henry VIII. Moreover, \u003cem\u003eImage of Governance\u003c\/em\u003e is not imaginary but historical, translated from the late antique Latin \u003cem\u003eHistoria augusta\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present book provides critical editions of Elyot's political writings other than the \u003cem\u003eGovernour\u003c\/em\u003e, all of which are or incorporate extensive translations of ancient Greek and Latin writings, like the \u003cem\u003eImage of Governance\u003c\/em\u003e. In these related 'Dialogues of Counsel', Elyot takes ancient historical cases -- Plato's sale into slavery by Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse, for example; or the life of the West Asian emperor Zenobia, a woman under patriarchy; or the advice of the Attic orator Isocrates to King Nicocles of Salamis; or the failed but ambitious late Roman imperiate of Alexander Severus; et cetera -- and dramatises them, by means of the sort of Lucianic dialogue that Erasmus had used for the \u003cem\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e (More too), except in the vernacular, for a relatively broader, more popular English audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46582798844114,"sku":"9781781886212","price":53.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46582798876882,"sku":"9781781886205","price":114.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_20e44f81-3335-442b-a605-32ac46408689.jpg?v=1763102863","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/thomas-elyot-the-image-of-governance-and-other-dialogues-of-counsel-1533-1541","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}