THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
IN MODERN HISTORY
PAPER 4 FOREIGN TEXTS
Machiavelli
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PAPER 4: FOREIGN TEXTS
MACHIAVELLI, DISCORSI SOPRA LA PRIMA DECA DI TITO LIVIO, BOOK I
Bibliography
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TEXTS
There are now several Italian editions of the complete works of Machiavelli:
M. Martelli (ed.)
Tutte le opere (1971)
R. Rinaldi (ed.)
Opere (1971–89)
C. Vivanti (ed.)
Opere. (1997–)
A. Capata (ed.)
Tutte le opere: storiche, politiche e letterarie (1998)
The most complete collection of Machiavelli’s writings in English is
A. Gilbert (ed. and tr.) The Chief Works and Others, (1965 and 1989)
Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio
Modern editions of the Italian text include:
C. Vivanti (ed.)
Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, (1983)
G. Inglese (ed.)
Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, ed. (1984)
F. Bausi (ed.)
Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, ed. (2001)
There are a number of good English translations:
H.C. Mansfield and N. Tarcov (tr.), Niccolò Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy, (1996)
J. Conaway Bondanella and P. Bondanella (tr.), Niccolò Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy
(1997 and 2003)
J.B. Atkinson and D. Sices (tr.), The Sweetness of Power: Machiavelli’s Discourses and
Guicciardini’s Considerations, (2002)
B. Crick (ed.)
The Discourses, using the translation of L.J. Walker, with revisions by
B. Richardson (2003)
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Other texts
D. Sices and J.B. Atkinson, (ed. and tr.), The Comedies of Machiavelli (1985)
The Art of War, a revised edition of E. Farneworth’s 1775
translation, with an introduction by N. Wood (1965, reprinted
1990)
L.F. Banfield and H.C. Mansfield (tr.) Florentine Histories, tr. (1988)
P. Bondanella (ed.), P. Bondanella and M. Musa (tr.), The Prince (1984 and 1998)
Q. Skinner and R. Price (tr.), The Prince (1988)
H.C. Mansfield (tr.)
The Prince (1998)
G. Bull (tr.)
The Prince, tr. (revised edn., 1999)
Correspondence:
J.B. Atkinson and D. Sices (eds.), Machiavelli and his Friends: Their Personal
Correspondence (1996)
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GENERAL STUDIES
Machiavelli
H. Baron
‘Machiavelli: The Republican citizen and the author of the
Prince’, English Historical Review, 76 (1961)
M. Martelli
‘Machiavelli politico amante poeta’, Interpres: rivista di studi
quattrocenteschi 17 (1988)
Q. Skinner
Machiavelli (1981)
M. Viroli
Machiavelli (1998)
The Discorsi
F. Gilbert
‘The composition and structure of Machiavelli’s Discorsi’,
Journal of the History of Ideas 14 (1953)
C. Pincin
‘Osservazioni sul modo di procedere di Machiavelli nei
Discorsi’, in A. Molho and J.A. Tedeschi (eds.), Renaissance:
Studies in Honor of Hans Baron (1971)
C. Pincin
‘La prefazione la dedicatoria dei Discorsi di Machiavelli’,
Giornale storica della letteratura italiana 143 (1966)
B. Richardson
‘The structure of Machiavelli’s Discorsi’, Italica 49 (1972)
H.C. Mansfield
Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the
Discourses on Livy (1979 and 2001)
MACHIAVELLI’S LIFE AND CAREER
Italy and Florence
H. Butters
Governors and Government in Early Sixteenth-Century
Florence, 1502–1519 (1985)
J. Hale
Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy (1961)
N. Rubinstein
‘Politics and the constitution in Florence at the end of the
fifteenth century’ in E.F. Jacob (ed.), Italian Renaissance
Studies (1960)
J.N. Stephens
The Fall of the Florentine Republic 1512–1530 (1983)
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Biographical
R. Black
‘Florentine political traditions and Machiavelli’s election to the
Chancery’, Italian Studies, 40 (1985)
R. Black
‘Machiavelli, servant of the Florentine Republic’ in G. Bock et
al. (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
E. Fasano Guarini
‘Machiavelli and the crisis of the Italian Republics’ in G. Bock
et al. (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
J.M. Najemy
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the
Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513–1515 (1993)
J.M. Najemy
‘The controversy surrounding Machiavelli’s service to the
Republic’, in G. Bock et al. (eds.), Machiavelli and
Republicanism (1990)
R. Ridolfi
The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli (1963)
N. Rubinstein
‘The beginnings of Niccolò Machiavelli’s career in the
Florentine Chancery’, Italian Studies, 11 (1956)
M. Viroli
Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli (2000 and 2001)
MACHIAVELLI, HUMANISM AND THE ANCIENT WORLD
F. Chabod
Machiavelli and the Renaissance (1958)
M.L. Colish
‘Cicero’s De officiis and Machiavelli’s Prince’, Sixteenth
Century Journal, 9 (1978)
F. Gilbert
‘Bernardo Rucellai and the Orti Oricellari: a study on the
origin of modern political thought’ in his History, Choice and
Commitment (1977)
P. Godman
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the
High Renaissance (1998)
A. Goodman and A. MacKay (eds.), The Impact of Humanism on Western Europe,
(1990)
M. Hulliung
Citizen Machiavelli (1983)
P.O. Kristeller
Renaissance Thought (1961–5)
B. Richardson
Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy (1999)
G. Sasso
Machiavelli e gli antichi, e altri saggi (1987–97)
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C.B. Schmitt, Q. Skinner and E. Kessler (eds.), The Cambridge History of
Renaissance Philosophy (1988)
G. Silvano
‘Early sixteenth-century Florentine Republicanism’ in G. Bock
et al. (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
L. Strauss
‘Machiavelli and Classical Literature’, Review of National
Literatures, 1 (1970)
MACHIAVELLI THE HISTORIAN
R. Black
‘The new laws of history’, Renaissance Studies 1 (1987)
P.E. Bondanella
Machiavelli and the Art of Renaissance History (1973)
E. Cochrane
Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance
(1981)
F. Gilbert
Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in
Sixteenth-Century Florence (1965)
F. Gilbert
‘Machiavelli’s Istorie Fiorentine: an essay in interpretation’, in
M.P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies on Machiavelli (1972), reprinted in
Gilbert’s History: Choice and Commitment (1977)
R. Hatfield
‘A source for Machiavelli’s account of the Regime of Piero de’
Medici’ in M. Gilmore (ed.), Studies on Machiavelli (1972)
M. Martelli
Machiavelli e gli storici antichi: osservazioni su alcuni luoghi
dei Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio (1998)
J.M. Najemy
‘Machiavelli and the Medici: the lessons of Florentine History’,
Renaissance Quarterly, 34 (1982)
M. Phillips
‘Barefoot boy makes good: a study of Machiavelli’s
historiography’, Speculum, 59 (1984)
M. Phillips
Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian’s Craft (1977)
M. Phillips
‘Machiavelli, Guicciardini and the tradition of vernacular
historiography in Florence’, American Historical Review, 84
(1979)
B. Richardson
‘Notes on Machiavelli’s sources and his treatment of the
rhetorical tradition’, Italian Studies, 26 (1971)
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MACHIAVELLI’S POLITICAL IDEAS
I. Berlin
‘The originality of Machiavelli’ in M.P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies
on Machiavelli (1972) reprinted in Berlin’s Against the
Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (1979)
M. Blitz
‘Virtue, modern and ancient’, in M. Blitz and W. Kristol (eds.),
Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield
(2000)
A. Bonadeo
Corruption, conflict, and power in the works and times of
Niccolò Machiavelli (1973)
H. Butters
‘Italian states and their elites: power, force, diplomacy and the
Roman model in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli’, in
S. Fletcher and C. Shaw (eds.), The World of Savonarola:
Italian Elites and Perceptions of Crisis (2000)
H. Butters
‘Good government and the limitations of power in the writings
of Niccolò Machiavelli’, History of Political Thought, 7 (1986)
M. Colish
‘The idea of liberty in Machiavelli’, Journal of the History of
Ideas, 32 (1971)
S. de Grazia
Machiavelli in Hell (1989)
P.S. Donaldson
Machiavelli and Mystery of State (1988)
E. Fasano Guarini
‘Machiavelli and the crisis of the Italian Republics’ in G. Bock
et al. (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
E. Garver
Machiavelli and the History of Prudence (1987)
F. Gilbert
Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in
Sixteenth-Century Florence (1965)
H.C. Mansfield
Machiavelli’s Virtue (1996)
W.R. Newell
‘How original is Machiavelli?’, Political Theory, 15 (1987)
H.F. Pitkin
Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of
Niccolò Machiavelli: With a New Afterword (1999, first
published 1984)
J. Pocock
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and
the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975)
R. Price
‘The senses of virtù in Machiavelli’, European Studies Review,
3 (1973)
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R. Price
‘The theme of gloria in Machiavelli’, Renaissance Quarterly,
30 (1977)
W.A. Rebhorn
Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli’s Confidence Men (1988)
Q. Skinner
The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol. I, The
Renaissance (1978)
Q. Skinner
‘Machiavelli on the maintenance of liberty’, Politics, 18 (1983)
Q. Skinner
‘Machiavelli’s Discorsi and the pre-Humanist origins of
Republican ideas’ in G. Bock et al. (eds.), Machiavelli and
Republicanism (1990)
Q. Skinner
‘The Republican ideal of political liberty’, in G. Bock, et al.,
(eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
M. Viroli
‘Machiavelli and the Republican idea of politics’ in G. Bock, et
al., (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
MACHIAVELLI AND RELIGION
A. Brown
‘Lucretius and the Epicureans in the social and political context
of Renaissance Florence’, I Tatti Studies, 9 (2001)
A. Brown
‘Savonarola, Machiavelli and Moses: a changing model’, in
P. Denley and C. Elam (eds.), Florence and Italy: Renaissance
Studies in Honour of N. Rubinstein (1988), reprinted in her The
Medici in Florence: The Exercise and Language of Power
(1992)
B.P. Copenhaver
‘Astrology and magic’, in C.B. Schmitt and Q. Skinner (eds.),
The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (1988),
pp. 264–301
T.E. Flanagan
‘The concept of fortuna in Machiavelli’, in A. Parel (ed.), The
Political Calculus (1972)
M.P. Gilmore
‘Freedom and determinism in Renaissance histories’, Studies in
the Renaissance, 3 (1956)
C. Orwin
‘Machiavelli’s unchristian charity’, American Political Science
Review, 72 (1978)
A.J. Parel
The Machiavellian Cosmos (1992)
G. Prezzolini
‘The Christian roots of Machiavelli’s moral pessimism’,
Review of National Literatures, 1 (1970)
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R. Price
‘The senses of virtù in Machiavelli’, European Studies Review,
3 (1973)
V.B. Sullivan
Machiavelli’s Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and
Politics Reformed (1996)
A. Tenenti
‘La religione di Machiavelli’, Studi storici 10 (1989)
D. Weinstein
‘Machiavelli and Savonarola’, in M.P. Gilmore (ed.), Studies in
Machiavelli (1972)
MACHIAVELLI AND WAR
C.C. Bayley
War and Society in Renaissance Florence (1961)
F. Gilbert
‘Machiavelli and the Renaissance of the art of war’ in
E.M. Earle (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy (1952)
J.R. Hale
War and Society in the Renaissance, 1450–1620 (1985)
J.R. Hale
‘To fortify or not to fortify? Machiavelli’s contribution to a
Renaissance debate’, in J.R. Hale, Renaissance War Studies
(1983)
M. Mallett and J.R. Hale, The Military Organization of a Renaissance State. Venice,
c. 1400–1617 (1984)
M. Mallett
‘The theory and practice of warfare in Machiavelli’s Republic’,
in G. Bock et al. (eds.), Machiavelli and Republicanism (1990)
M. Mallett
Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy
(1974)
M. Mallett
‘Preparations for war in Florence and Venice in the later
fifteenth century’, in S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein and C.H. Smith
(eds.), Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations (2
vols. 1979), vol. I, pp. 149–164.
B. Wicht
L’idée de milice et le modèle suisse dans la pensée de
Machiavel (1995)
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