Machiavelli - the first century : studies in enthusiasm, hostility, and irrelevance / Sydney Anglo.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527.

Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- 16th century.

Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.

Introduction: problems regarding method

Part 1. Early readership: 1. The earliest readers of Machiavelli: miscellaneous and military

2. Creative plagiarism: Agostino Nifo's 'De regnandi peritia'

3. Early readers of Machiavelli: comment and discourse

4. A hostile cardinal: Reginald Pole and his 'Apologia'

5. Osorio and Machiavelli: from open hostility to covert approbation

6. Machiavelli and the index of prohibited books

7. Machiavelli's keenest readers: the early translators

Part 2. The rhetoric of hate: 8. In praise of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

9. Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli's 'Maximes tyranniques'

10. In the wake of Gentillet: evolution of the 'Machiavel' stereotype in France and England

11. More Machiavellian than Machiavel: the Jesuits and the context of Donne's 'Conclave'

Part 3. Adaptation, attack, defence: 12. Gentillet's final assault: the 'Contre-Machiavel' of 1585

13. From sublime to ridiculous: some serious readers of Machiavelli

14. Writers on the art of war

Part 4. Machiavelli and non-Machiavelli: 15. Paradoxes on the reception of Machiavelli's military thinking

16. Systematic immorality: the courtier's art

17. Systematic fragmentation: the vogue of the political aphorism

Epilogue.

Includes bibliography and index.

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x, 765 p.