Table of Content
Foreword Preface PART ONE Introduction: The Puzzle of The Prince An Extreme Book for Extreme Times Humanists and Heretics Machiavelli Before The Prince The Prince 's Prolonged and Difficult Birth Dueling Machiavellis in Early Modern Europe: The Counselor to Tyrants and the Republican Conspirator The Prince and the Autonomy of Politics: A Blessing and a Curse PART TWO The Document The Prince PART THREE Related Documents 1. Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Giovan Battista Soderini, circa September 13-27, 1506 2. Francesco Vettori, Letter to Niccolò Machiavelli, November 23, 1513 3. Niccolò Machiavelli, Letter to Francesco Vettori, December 10, 1513 4. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Thrushes: A Sonnet, 1513 5. Riccardo Riccardi, Machiavelli's Presentation of The Prince , circa 1580 6. Niccolò Guicciardini, From a Letter to Luigi Guicciardini, July 29, 1517 7. Early Prefaces of The Prince Biagio Buonaccorsi, Prefatory Letter to Pandolfo Bellacci, circa 1516-17 Teofilo Mochi, Prefatory Letter, circa 1530 Antonio Blado, Dedicatory Letter to Filippo Strozzi, January 4, 1532 Bernardo Giunta, Dedicatory Letter to Giovanni Gaddi, May 8, 1532 8. Agostino Nifo, From On Skill in Ruling. 1523 9. Giovan Battista Busini, From a Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 23, 1549 10. Benedetto Varchi, From the Florentine History, 1565 11. Étienne Binet, From Machiavelli's Dream, 1629 12. Reginald Pole, From the Apology to Charles V, 1534 13. Innocent Gentillet, From the Discourses Against Machiavelli, 1576 14. Christopher Marlowe, From The Jew of Malta, circa 1590 15. Frederick the Great, From The Refutation of Machiavelli's "Prince," 1740 16. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, From On the Social Contract, After 1762 17. Benito Mussolini, "A Prelude to Machiavelli," 1924 18. Antonio Gramsci, From the Prison Notebooks, 1932-34 Appendixes Maps A Machiavelli Chronology (1469-1527) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index
