Machiavelli

The Chief Works and Others, Vol. II

Author: Gilbert, Allan; Machiavelli, Nicollò di Bernado dei
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822309215
eISBN Pdf: 9780822381587
Place of publication: Durham , United States
Year of digital publication: 2013
Month: July
Pages: 499
Language: English

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From praise for the 1965 edition:

Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan Gilbert.”—Dante Germino, The Journal of Politics

“A most remarkable achievement.”—Felix Gilbert, Renaissance Quarterly

TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME TWO
THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI OF LUCCA
THE ART OF WAR
- THE ACCOUNT OF A VISIT MADE TO FORTIFY FLORENCE: A LETTER TO THE AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC IN ROME
- TERCETS ON AMBITION
- TERCETS ON INGRATITUDE OR ENVY
- TERCETS ON FORTUNE
- THE [GOLDEN] ASS
MACHIAVELLI’S COMEDIES
- MANDRAGOLA
- CLIZIA
- ARTICLES FOR A PLEASURE COMPANY
- BELFAGOR, THE DEVIL WHO MARRIED
- CARNIVAL SONGS (five songs)
FAMILIAR LETTERS (all given are complete)
- A SONNET TO MESSER BERNARDO HIS FATHER
- TWO SONNETS TO GIULIANO, SON OF LORENZO DE’MEDICI
- A THIRD SONNET TO GIULIANO
- SERENADE