Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Volume 1
Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Pages: 547
ISBN: 2:00207257
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Paginated, TOC.
From praise for the 1965 edition:
Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan Gilbert.”—Dante Germino, The Journal of Politics
“A most remarkable achievement.”—Felix Gilbert, Renaissance Quarterly
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objections, I shall run through the qualities of some emperors, showing the causes of their destruction-not out of harmony with what I have put forward; and in so doing I shall 7. That is, the Parliament. 8. In view ~f what precedes andfollows, we expect here astatement that the Parliament made the rich secure against the masses. Perhaps Machiavelli thought it would be taken for granted. 71 Military Support bring to attention the things worth noting by one who reads what was done in those
was so defective and remote from a true republic that a Gonfalonier for life, ifhe was intelligent and wicked, easily could make himself prince; if he was good and weak/ he could easily be driven out, with the ruin of the whole government. Since it would be a long matter to set forth all the reasons, I will tell just one: the Gonfalonier did not have those around him who could protect him, ifhe were good; nor anyone who, ifhe were bad, could restrain him or set him right. The reason why all these
revoked by the Pope, unless he sees in it some advantage for himself, as happened in the affairs of Bologna. Moreover, since to negotiate the same thing in two places is dangerous, and therefore it has to be negotiated in one place, it would be better to negotiate it here rather than in Rome. Because for this I would not be and am not sufficient, on account ofthe need for a man with more discretion, more reputation than I have, and who understands the world better, I have all the time believed it
his father and that state would be for helping him •... l 1. Giovanni Bentivoglio, ruler of Bologna. 13.42 18 November 1503, 4 p.m., from Rome. . . . It seemed good to the Most Reverend Monsignor of V ol~ terra that I should again be at the feet ofthe Pope and read him your letters, to see what further His Holiness might say, and also to tell him your opinion about the affairs of the Duke, and altogether to learn his intention about it . . •. I went into the business of the Duke and gave the
Lordships have the field clear for deciding without any hesitation what is for your advantage. And again I say that if because of some recent happening Your Lordships think you should aid him, you can change, though the Pope will like it better if he can give him a shove, as soon as his situation is such as I have mentioned . . . . The Duke himself is at Ostia, and is waiting for weather to go to La Spezia. He will occupy five vessels, and will have with him five hundred persons; nobody knows