| Description |
3 volumes (xii, 1514 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, portrait ; 25 cm |
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V.3. The history of Florence -- The nature of Florentine men -- Words to be spoken on the law for appropriating money -- First decannale, ten years of Florentine history 1494-1504 -- Second decennale, five years of Florentine history 1504-1509 -- Epigram, Piero Soderini -- Epigram, Argus, on the release of Francis I |
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v. 1. A provision for infantry (a selection) -- The prince -- A pastoral : the ideal ruler -- A discourse on remodeling the government of Florence -- Advice to Raffaello Girolami when he went as ambassador to the emperor -- The legations (parts of dispatches dealing with Cesare Borgia) -- On the method of dealing with the rebellious peoples of the Valdichiana (a selection) -- A description of the method used by Duke Valentino in killing Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, and others (at Sinigaglia) -- An exhortation to penitence -- Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius -- |
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v. 2. The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca -- The art of war -- The account of a visit made to fortify Florence : a letter to the ambassador of the Republic in Rome -- Tercets on ambition -- Tercets on ingratitude or envy -- Tercets on fortune -- The (golden) ass -- Machiavelli's comedies : Mandragola ; Clizia -- Articles for a pleasure company -- Belfagor, the devil who married -- Carnival songs (five songs) -- Familiar letters (all given are complete) -- A sonnet to Messer Bernardo his father -- Two sonnets to Giuliano, son of Lorenzo De'Medici -- A third sonnet to Giuliano -- Serenade -- |
| Summary |
Because of her hateful pride the king gave his daughter in marriage to the first beggar to pass the castle gates |
| Subject |
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
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Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
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Political ethics.
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Political science -- Early works to 1800.
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Political science -- To 1700
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Fairy tales.
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| Author |
Gilbert, Allan H., 1888-1987, editor, translator
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| LC no. |
64016192 |
| ISBN |
0822309130 (cloth : set) |
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0822309203 (v. 1) |
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0822309211 (v. 2) |
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0822309319 (paperback: set) |
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0822309459 (paperback: v. 1) |
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0822309475 (paperback: set) |
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(paperback: v. 2) |
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(v. 3) |
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