<b>A Arte do Aconselhamento em Kalila e Dimna de Ibn Almuqaffaᶜ (séc. VIII) e O Príncipe de Maquiavel (séc. XVI)</b>

O presente artigo tem por objetivo discutir a arte de aconselhamento presente no fabulario Kalila e Dimna de Abdullah Ibn Almuqaffaᶜ do sec. VIII e no manual O Principe de Nicolau Maquiavel do sec. XVI, ensejando evidenciar um possivel dialogo entre as obras. Alguns historiadores sugerem que ambas as obras encontrariam semelhancas que sugeririam uma recepcao das ideias de Kalila e Dimna por Maquiavel. Entretanto, ate o momento nao ha trabalhos disponiveis que de fato investiguem esta relacao, logo este artigo pretende discutir se tais semelhancas realmente sao verificaveis, ou se as mesmas sao inerentes ao genero tratadistico que teve expressao no periodo califal abassida no mundo arabe-islâmico e que foi instrumentalizado no Ocidente no periodo medieval, vindo a compor o estilo chamado “espelho de principe”. The Art of Counseling in Kalila and Dimna by Ibn Almuqaffa (8th Century) and the Prince of Machiavelli (16th Century) The aim of this article is to discuss the art of counseling present in the fabulary Kalila and Dimna of Abdullah Ibn Almuqaffa from 8th century and in the manual The Prince of Niccolo Machiavelli of the 16th century, showing the alleged similarities between the two works, which led some editors to propose a reception of the ideas of Kalila and Dimna by Machiavelli. So far, there are no works available that actually investigate this relationship, so this article intends to analyze whether such similarities really are verifiable, or whether they are inherent to the tratadistic genre that was expressed in the Abbasid caliph period in the Arab-Islamic world and which was instrumentalized in the West in the medieval period, composing the style called "mirror of prince". Through the resources mobilized by Comparative History, we propose that it is possible to analyze both works without the risk of making our analysis anachronistic, since it is the questions we propose, not the objects of study itself, that guide our research. Here we relate the propositions of power and cunning elaborated by Machiavelli and Abdullah Ibn Almuqaffa, respectively represented by the lion and the fox, evidencing the oriental character in the "Machiavellian" morality.