Más maquiaveliano que maquiavélico: La presencia de El príncipe, los Discursos sobre la primera década de Tito Livio y La vida de Castruccio Castracani en El político Don Fernando el Católico de Gracián

One of the most common topics in Gracián's bibliography is to study the influence of machiavellism in his works. It has been usual to stress Gracián's machiavellism. In this large bibliography, more attention has been paid to describe Gracián as a machiavellian than to study how particular ideas and works of Machiavelli are present in his works. In this article, I want to describe how El político Don Fernando el Católico includes ideas from The prince, the Discourses and The life of Castruccio Castracani, a work neglected by Gracián's scholars. Among others, the ideas that Gracián shares with Machiavelli are the following: the theory of occasion and riscontro, the division of the politician character between impulsive and prudent, the criterion to evaluate political succes and the method to write a political biography. The result of my research shows that Gracián, instead of being a purely machiavellian thinker, shares with Machiavelli a great number of ideas, many of which have nothing to do with the immoral Machiavelli.