La Vita di Castruccio Castracani fra ricostruzione storiografica e falsificazione letteraria

In the early 1520s, Machiavelli finally managed to obtain a public assignment: to tell the history of the city of Florence, a task he fulfilled by writing the Istorie fiorentine. Before officially accepting the mandate as the city’s official historian, Machiavelli composed a historical biography, the Vita di Castruccio Castracani. Øe article aims to examine the Vita from the point of view of the singular relationship established by the author between historiographical writing and literary writing, which responds to the aesthetic need for balance and completeness of the narration and for a truth of a different nature from the strictly historical one of the facts that occurred.