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MACHIAVELLI
Giuseppe Prezzolini
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, N.Y.,1967, 372
pgs., index, sources
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Reviewer's Comments:
This is an excellent reference because it is so comprehensive in content, as
the table of contents indicates. Many of the chapters are only one or two pages
long, but they are summaries of the ideas described. The subject matter is the
history of ideas - Machiavelli's ideas and the ideas of his sources and of this
later commentators. Machiavelli was a relatively rare historical figure - both
an active instigator and conductor of actions in his polity and an influential
(albeit) postumously author of significant theories. His very significant
impact throughout subsequent history, of course, has been in the acceptance or
not of his theories rather than what he did or did not accomplish in his
lifetime.
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I - The Doctrine
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1 The repugnance of Machiavelli's ideas
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2 His ideas misinterpreted
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3 -Machiavelli, founder of political science
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4 - Machiavelli and Galileo
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5 - His awareness of being an innovator
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6 - The new concept of the state
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7 -The state and the individual
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8 - The state must combat foreign powers
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9 - The state is might and only might
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10 - Recourse to evil is necessary in politics
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11 - The pessimism of Machiavelli
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12 - Virtu in Machiavelli
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13 - The most anti-Christian thinker of his time
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14 - His intellecturality
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15 - Religion at the service of the state
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16 - His criticism of the Church of Rome
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17 - Modern states have adopted his ideas of religion
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18 - His religiosity
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19 - The relativity of forms of government
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20 - The state as form imposed on the people
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21 - The state as an end in itself
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22 - The end and the means
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23 - The 'one man' or redeemer
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24 - The return of the state to first principles
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25 - Human nature and education
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26 -Necessity and liberity
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27 - Liberty
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28 - Idleness and action
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29 - Fortune
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30 - The national state
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31 - Love of country above all else
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32 - The forms of government
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33 - Machiavelli and the Renaissance
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34 - Breaking away from the Middle Ages
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35 - Motives in history
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36 - Machiavelli's politicl formula
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37 - His dialectics
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II - Machiavelli's Precursors
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1 - Plato
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2 - The Sophists
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3 - Euripides
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4 - Thucydides
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5 - Aristotle
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6 - Polybius
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7 - Pluarch
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8 - Carneades
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9 - The Romans; Cicero
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10 - St. Augustine
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11 - Dante
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12 - The Humanists
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III His Work
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1 - Report on the Pistola Factions
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2 - Method used by Duke Valentine
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3 - On Providing Money
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4 - On Dealing with the Valdichiana Rebels
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5 - Annals of Italy
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6 - The Prince
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7 - Discources
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8 - The Comedies
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9 - The Art of War
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10 - Life of Castrccio Castracani
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11 -Florentine Histories
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12 - Reforming the State of Florence
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13 - The Golden Ass
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14 - Capitoli
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15 - Dialogue on Language
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16 - The Letters
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IV - His Life
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1 - First period - Early years - 1469 - 1498
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2 - Second period - To his dismissal by the Medici, 1498 - 1512
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3 - Third period - To his death, 1512 - 1517
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V - His Friends and Conemporaries
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1 - Buonaccorzi
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2 - Savonarola
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3 - Francesco Vettori
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4 - Alamanni
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5 - Lenardo da Vinci
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6 - Fregoso
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7 - Francesco Guicciardini
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8 - Brucioli and Luigi Guicciardini
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9 - Bandello
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VI - Machiavellianism
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1 - The real life of Machiavelli: Machiavellianism
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2 - Universal hatred of Machiavelli; its origin
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3 -The first enemy, Cardinal Reginald Pole
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4 - Gentillet
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5 - Busini
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6- The Florentine Historians
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7 - Writers and Literati
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8 - Giorio
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9 - The Plagiarists
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10 - The purge and the Tuscans
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11 - The Jesuits
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12 - Paolo Paruta
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13 - Boero, Boccalini, Sarpi and others
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14 - The Utopians
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Machaivelli and the Philosophers
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1 - Francis Bacon
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2 - Descartes
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3 - Thomas Hobbes
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4 - Spinoza
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5 - Vanini
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6 - Leibnitz
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Machiavelli and the 18th Century
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1 - Alfieri
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2 - Baretti
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Machiavelli in France
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1 - Corbinelli
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2 - Hostility of the French
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3 - Monesquieu
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4 - The French translators
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5 - Richelieu
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Machiavelli in England
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1 - The diabolic legend
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2 Edmund Spenser-
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3 - Walter Raleigh
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4 - The dramatists
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5 - David Hume
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6 - Milton
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7 - The romantics
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8 - The moderns
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Machiavelli in Spain
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1 - A positive anti-Machiavellianism
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2 - Juan de Mariana
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3 - The Machiavellists; Barrientos
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4 - Setanti
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5 - Gracian
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-Machiavelli in Germany
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1 - Acceptance by the Germans
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2 - Lipsius and Schoppe
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3 - Conring, Althusius, Christ
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4 - Herder
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5 - Fichte and Hegel
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6 - The historians
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7 - The diabolic in politics
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Periiodic Rebirth of Machiavelli
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1 - Ferrari, Joly and others
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2 - G. B. Vico
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Machiavelli and the Encyclopedists
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1 - Bayle
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2 - Voltaire and Frederick II
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3 - Diderot
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4 - Rousseau
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5 - Helvetius, Condillac and others
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6 - Galiani
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Machiavelli and the Risorgimento
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1 - Machiavelli's reduced stature
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2 - Cuoco
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3 - Leopardi
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4 - Balbo
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5 - Gioberti
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6 - Manzoni
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7 - Mazzini
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8 - De Santctis
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9 - Guiseppe Ferrari
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10 - The Romantics
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VII Machiavelli, our Contemporary
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1 - Machiavelli in the 20th century
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2 - Machiavelli in Russia
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3 - Machiavelli in America
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4 - Machiavelli, our contemporary
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