Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Vol. 2

517 Pages·1989·33.104 MB·English

by  Nicollò di Bernado dei Machiavelli, Allan Gilbert

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MACHIAVELLI

MACHIAVELLI
THE CHIEF WORKS AND OTHERS
TRANSLATED BY ALLAN GILBERT
VOLUME TWO
Non in exercitu} nee inrobore ...
Duke University Press Durham and London 1989
©1958,1961,1963,1965,1989byAllanH.Gilbert
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME ONE
Page
PREFACE
TheTranslation vii
TheWorksIncluded "ii;
The NotesandIndex ;x
TEXTS USED IN TRANSLATING x·
I
A PROVISIONFORINFANTRY (aselection) 3
THEPRINCE 5
A PASTORAL:THEIDEALRULER 97
A DISCOURSEONREMODELING THEGOVERNMENT OF
FLORENCE 101
ADVICETORAFFAELLO GIROLAMI WHENHEWENT AS
AMBASSADORTO THEEMPEROR
THE LEGATIONS (partsofdispatchesdealingwithCesareBorgia) 120
ONTHEMETHOD OFDEALING WITHTHEREBELLIOUS
PEOPLESOFTHEVALDICHIANA(aselection)
A DESCRIPTIONOF THEMETHOD USED BYDUKE
VALENTINOINKILLINGVITELLOZZO VITELLI,
OLIVEROTTO DAFERMO,AND OTHERS
[ATSINIGAGLIA]
ANEXHORTATIONTO PENITENCE
DISCOURSES ONTHEFIRSTDECADEOFTITUS LIVIUS
BOOKI
BOOK2
BOOK 3
VOLUME TWO Page
THE LIFE OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANIOFLUCCA 533
THEARTOFWAR 561
vi Table ofContents
THEACCOUNT OFA VISITMADE TOFORTIFYFLORENCE:
A LETTERTO THEAMBASSADOROF THEREPUBLICIN
ROME 7~
TERCETS ONAMBITION 735
TERCETS ONINGRATITUDEORENVY 740
TERCETS ONFORTUNE 745
THE [GOLDEN] ASS 750
MACHIAVELLI'S COMEDIES 773
MANDRAGOLA n6
CU~A ~
ARTICLESFORA PLEASURE COMPANY 865
BELFAGOR, THEDEVILWHO MARRIED 869
CARNIVALSONGS (fivesongs) 878
FAMILIARLETTERS (allgivenarecomplete) 883
A SONNETTO MESSERBERNARDOHIS FATHER 1012
TWO SONNETS TO GIULIANO, SON OF LORENZO
DE'MEDICI J013
A THIRD SONNETTO GIULIANO 5
101
SERENADE 1016
VOLUME THREE Page
THEHISTORY OFFLORENCE 5
102
THE NATURES OFFLORENTINEMEN 1436
WORDS TO BESPOKEN ONTHE LAWFORAPPROPRIATtI
INC MONEY 1439
FIRSTDECENNALE, tenyearsofFlorentinehistory.1494"1504 1444
SECOND DECENNALE,jiveyearsofFlorentinehistory. 15°4"15°9. 1457
EPIGRAM, PIERO SODERINI 146]
EPIGRAM,ARGUS, onthereleaseofFrancis1 1463
INDEX 14~
ILLUSTRA TIONS
frontispiece
Terra cotta bust ofMachiavelli by an unknown artist, in the Societa Columbaria,
Florence. (Alinar;photograph)
facingpage136
San Leo;n1957
facingpage546
Serravalle
followingpage726
PlatesillustratingtheARTOFWAR
facingpage876
Theexpulsionofthedevilfrom onepossessed
facingpage1114
Bagsfrom whichthenamesofFlorentineswhoweretoholdpublicofficeweredrawn.

TEXTS USED IN TRANSLATING
TUTTE LE OPERE STORICHE E LETTERARIE DI NICCOLO
MACHIAVELLI, a cura di Guido Mazzoni e Mario Casella,
Firenze 1929.
TUTTE LE OPERE di Niccolo Machiavelli, acura di Francesco Flora e
di Carlo Cordie, 1959, 1960 (to be completed).
LE OPERE DI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, per cura di P. Fanfani e
di L. Passerini edi G. Milanesi, Firenze 1873~77 (incomplete).
OPERE DI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Italia 1813.
OPERE MINORI DI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, con note di F. L.
Polidori, Firenze 1852.
IL PRINCIPE DI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Firenze (Giunta) 1532.
IL PRINCIPE DI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Rome (Blado) 1532.
DISCORSI DI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, Firenze (Giunta) 1531.
LIBRO DELLAARTE DELLA GUERRADI NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI,
Firenze (Giunta) 1524.
COMEDIA DI CALLIMACO & DI LUCRETIA, [Firenze ?] [1524 ?].
MANDRAGOLA, a cura di S. Dehenedetti, Strasburgo (Bihliotheca
Romanica).
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, ISTORIE FlORENTINE, per cura di
Plinio Carli, Firenze 1927.
Niccolo Machiavelli, LETTERE FAMILIARI puhhlicate per cura di
Edoardo Lisio, Firenze 1883.
Niccolo Machiavelli, LETTERE FAMILIARI, a cura di Gerolamo
Lazzeri, Milano 1923.
Machiavelli, LETTERE, [a cura di Giuseppe Lesca], Firenze 1929.
Niccolo Machiavelli, LETTERE, a cura di Franco Gaeta, Milano 1961.
Oreste Tommasini, LA VITA E GLI SCRITTI DI NICCOLO MACHI~
AVELLI, vol. 2,parte 2, Appendice, Roma 1911.
Pasquale Villari, NICCOLO MACHIAVELLl ••• illustrati con nuovi
document;, Milano 1912;1914.