Machiavelli

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
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

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