Las estrategias persuasivas de Margarita de Parma en sus cartas italianas a Felipe II entre 1560 y 1564

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the persuasive strategies identified in the Italian letters written by Margaret of Parma to Philip II between 1560 and 1564, as the governor of the Netherlands and as half-sister of the Spanish monarch. From a pragmatic approach, we show and analyze some representative fragments selected from an unpublished corpus of 47 private letters written in Italian by Margaret of Parma herself, where we find samples of her discursive strategies used to persuade the Spanish monarch not only about political issues and the management of the territories of Flanders, but also about personal and family matters concerning the Duchess of Parma. The language used by Margaret of Parma in her private letters to Philip II show the dichotomy between their relationship within the public sphere as the representative of the Spanish Crown in the Netherlands and their personal tie as half-sister of the king, as a woman, wife and mother.