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The first book of the fifth volume treats the background of Machiavellism in sixteenth-century Europe.

Table of Contents

Introduction "Machiavellism" and "Statism" in Machiavelli Historiography Reconsidering Machiavelli Historiography Reconsidering Contextual Historiography "Machiavellism" and "Statism" in Machiavelli's Major Political Works "Machiavellism" and "Statism" in Botero, Bodin, and Henry VIII Sources for the Prince Reexamined Contexts of Other Works Reexamined Machiavelli and the Medici Reexamined: Essays in Comparative Chronology Annexes: (Machiavelli, Florentine Background) Machiavelli's Exhortatio as Partly Patterned after Ficino's Exhortatio Machiavelli's Contacts with Michelangelo and Ficino as Evidenced by Buonaccorsi Machiavelli's Florentine Government in Perspective: Judicial-Jurisdictional vs. Legislative Sovereignty

About the Author

A. LONDON FELL has a B.A. from Princeton University and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has been a longtime teacher at New York and Fordham Universities.