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Before Machiavelli, texts: L. B. Alberti, I Libri della
famiglia, ed. Cecil Grayson, in Opere volgari, Vol. I (Bari,
1960). Matteo Palmieri, Libro della vita civile (Florence,
1529). Petrarch, Le Familiari (Familiarium rerum libri), here
cited as Fam., ed. in 4 vols. by Vittorio Rossi, the last
vol. by Umberto Bosco (Florence, 1933-42). Girolamo
Savonarola, Prediche e scritti, ed. Mario Ferrara (Milan,
1930).
Before Machiavelli, commentary: Werner Jaeger, Paideia:
the Ideals of Greek Culture, trans. Gilbert Highet, 3 vols.
(New York, 1939), on the Greek idea of virtue (aretē).
Theodor E. Mommsen, “Petrarch and the Story of the
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Eugene F. Rice, Jr. (Ithaca, N.Y., 1959). Erwin Panofsky,
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of Panofsky cited there).
Machiavelli, texts: The most recent edition in Italian is
the Feltrinelli Edition, Vol. I, Il Principe e Discorsi, ed.
Sergio Bertelli (Milan, 1960), here cited as Prince and Disc.
respectively; Vol. II, Arte della Guerra e scritti politici
minori, ed. Sergio Bertelli (Milan, 1961); Vol. VI, Lettere,
ed. Franco Gaeta (Milan, 1961); Vol. VIII, Il teatro e scritti
letterari, ed. Franco Gaeta (Milan, 1965); all vols. contain
bibliographical essays. Translations, unless otherwise
identified, are by Jerrold E. Seigel. The best English
edition of the Discorsi is The Discourses, trans. with intro.
and notes by Leslie J. Walker, S.J. (New Haven, 1950). The
most recent translation is Machiavelli, The Chief Works and
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Machiavelli, commentary: Eric W. Cochrane, “Machi-
avelli 1940-1960,” Journal of Modern History, 33 (1961),
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(London, 1957). Gennaro Sasso, Niccolò Machiavelli: Storia
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After Machiavelli, texts: Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire
raisonné des sciences (Berne and Lausanne, 1781), Vol. 35,
art. “Vertu.” Frederick the Great,
Réfutation du Prince de
Machiavel (
Antimachiavell),
Oeuvres (Berlin, 1846-57), Vol.
8. Thomas Hobbes,
Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
(Cambridge, 1928); idem,
Leviathan (London, 1651, and
subsequent editions). Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Will to Power,
trans. Anthony M. Ludovici, 2 vols. in
The Complete Works
of Friedrich Nietzsche, ed. Oscar Levy (New York, 1964),
Vols. 14 and 15.
After Machiavelli, commentary: the works of de Mattei
and Meinecke cited above. John Laird, Hobbes (New York,
1934; 1968). Leo Strauss, The Political Philosophy of Hobbes
(Chicago, 1952). Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche (Princeton,
1960; 1968).
JERROLD E. SEIGEL
[See also Fortune; Happiness;
Machiavellism; Necessity;
1">Relativism in Ethics;
9">Renaissance Humanism; Right and
Good; State; Stoicism.]
