The quotable Machiavelli /
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Princeton University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; CHRONOLOGY; NOTE ON THE TEXTS; I. Machiavelli on Himself, His Family, and Friends ; II. Machiavelli Described by His Relatives, Friends, and Lovers; III. Man and Cosmos; Devils and Hell; Fortune; God's and the Heavens' Influence on Human Affairs; God's Mercy; Good and Evil; Prophecies; Purgatory; Return to Beginnings; The Universe, Its Hidden Power; The World and Its Eternity; IV. The Human Condition; Antiquity and the Ancients; Avarice; Beasts; Bloodshed; Compassion; Concealment; Confession; Conscience; Courage (Animo); Cowardice.
- CrueltyDeath ; The Death Penalty; Deceit; Decline; Desire; Despair; Discourse; Disease; Dishonesty; The End Result; Error; Fault; Fear; Flattery; Fraud; Glory; Goals; The Good and Goodness; Greatness of Soul; Growth; Hatred; History; Honesty; Horror; Humility; Imitation; Infamy; Ingratitude; Insolence; Love; The Mind; Miracles; New Ways, New Continents; Old Times; Opportunity; Order and Disorder; Passions and Their Remedies; Patriotism; Peace; Prudence; Punishment; Rebirth (Renaissance); Religion and the Reform of Religions; Saints; Science; Severity; Sin; Stupidity; Suspicion; Virtue.
- WomenWords; V. Political Life; Accusations and Calumnies; Agrarian Law; Ambition; The Aristocracy; The Army and Soldiers; Artillery; Authority; Cavalry; Cities; Citizenship; Colonies; Constitution; Corruption; Dictatorship; Disorders; Empires and Emperors; Equality; Errors; Expansion; Extraordinary Measures; Fortresses; The Founders and Reformers of States; Gold; Gonfalonier (Highest Magistrate of the Republic of Florence); Government; Laws; Liberality; Liberty and Its Safekeeping; Ministers; Mixed Government; The Multitude; Opinion, Freedom of; The People; Popular Government; Poverty.
- The PrincePublic Honors; Republics; Revolutions and Reforms; Servitude; Social Conflicts; The State; Tribunes of the People; Tyranny; Tyranny and License; War; VI. Machiavelli on His Contemporaries; Alexander VI, Pope; Giovanpaolo Baglioni; Cesare Borgia, the Duke Valentino; Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Spain; Italian Princes; Julius II, Pope; Lorenzo de'Medici (the Magnificent); Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino; Louis XII, King of France; Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany; Girolamo Savonarola (Friar); Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì; Piero Soderini; VII. Past and Present; Achilles.
- Agathocles of SyracuseAlexander the Great; Aristotle; Athens and Sparta; Cicero; Constantinople; Cyrus, King of Persia; Dante Alighieri; King David (Old Testament); Cosimo de'Medici; Giovanni de' Medici; Florence; France and the French; Germany and the German Free Cities; Italy; Julius Caesar; Livy (Roman Historian); Moses; Plutarch; Rome and the Roman People; Romulus; Turks and the Turkish Empire; Venice; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; CREDITS; INDEX.