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THE LETTERS OF MACHIAVELLI

Allan Gilbert, trans. and edit

 
 

Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1961, 252 pgs., paperback

 
 

Reviewer comment - This edition contains 227 of Machiavelli's letters, obviously a small part of his vast volume of correspondence, but many were destroyed before his grand son was able to begin collecting them

 
 

Introduction

 
 

I - The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli (1460 - 1527)

 
 

II - The Mind of a Statesman and Poet

 
 

III - Thinking toward The Prince

 
 

IV - Three Political Letters

 
 

V - Savonarola

 
 

VI - Machiavelli and the Poets

 
 

VII - Florentine Marriages

 
 

VIII - Machiavelli the Comic Observer

 
 

Notes on Individual Letters

 
 

The Letters

 
 

The letters are numbered in acodance with Alvisi's edition of 1883 - that collection contains letters to Machiavelli, which is why this list has many gaps in the numbers

 

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