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9781410211729

Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli : Volume II

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    9781410211729

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-03-03
  • Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

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Table of Contents

BOOK THE FIRST.
CHAPTER XIV. (1512.)
1(18)
The battle of Ravenna
The French retreat
Dangers of the Republic
Machiavelli organizes the defence
Ordinance of the mounted militia
The Spaniards capture and pillage Prato
Riot in Florence in favour of the Medici
The Gonfalonier Soderini is deposed and leaves the city
CHAPTER XV. (1512-1513.)
19(22)
Return of the Medici to Florence, 1512
New form of government
Persecutions
Writings addressed by Machiavelli to the Medici
He is deprived of all his offices
Death of Julius II.
Election of Leo X.
Conspiracy and death of Pietro Paolo Boscoli and Agostino Capponi
Machiavelli is accused of complicity in the plot
He is imprisoned, put to the question, and afterwards released
His sonnets
CHAPTER XVI. (1513-1514.)
41(24)
The Medicean government in Florence
Machiavelli's difficulties
His correspondence with Francesco Vettori
BOOK THE SECOND.
CHAPTER I.
65(29)
The political writers of the Middle Ages
The Guelph and Ghibelline schools
St. Thomas Aquinas and Egidio Colonna
Dante Alighieri and Marsilio da Padova
The fifteenth century
Savonarola and his treatise on the government of Florence
The learned men and their political writings
The Italian Ambassadors and their Legations
Francesco Guicciardini
His Legation in Spain, his political speeches, and his tractate "Del Reggimento di Firenze"
CHAPTER II
94(39)
The "Prince" and the "Discourses"
Religious reform and the new State Machiavelli's paganism
His republican faith
Machiavelli and Aristotle
The State according to Machiavelli's ideas
His method
Political science in Greece, and during the Renaissance
The Discourses
CHAPTER III.
133(30)
Criticism on the "Discourses"
The "Reflections" of Guicciardini upon the Discourses"
CHAPTER IV.
163(34)
The "Prince"
CHAPTER V.
197(53)
The critics of the "Prince"
Contemporaries and Florentines after 1530
Defenders of the Church
Jesuits
Charles V. and statesmen
Protestants
Christina of Sweden, Frederick II. of Prussia, Napoleon I., Prince Metternich
Philosophers and critics
Ranke and Leo—Macaulay
Gervinus and more recent critics
CHAPTER VI.
250(28)
Leo X., his Court and his Policy
CHAPTER VII.
278(31)
Machiavelli and his family in the country
His children
His correspondence with his nephew Giovanni Vernacci
His journey to Genoa
The Oricellarii Gardens
The "Discourses" of Guicciardini
"Discourse on the reform of the Florentine government"
The mission to Lucca
"Summary of the affairs of Lucca"
"The Life of Castruccio Castracani"
CHAPTER VIII.
309(33)
The "Art of War"
CHAPTER IX.
342(15)
Machiavelli is commissioned to write his "Histories"
Soderini tries to dissuade him from accepting
His journey to Carpi and correspondence with Guicciardini
Pope Adrian VI.
New proposals of reform in Florence
Plot against the Medici, and condemnation of the conspirators
CHAPTER X.
357(26)
General condition of the Italian stage
The miracle plays ("Sacre Rappresentazioni")
The "Comedy of Art" and the "Comedy of Learning"
The comedies of Ariosto
The "Calandria" of Cardinal Bibbiena
The comedies of Machiavelli
The "Mandragola," the "Clizia," the "Comedy in Prose," the "Comedy in Verse," the translation of the "Andria"
CHAPTER XI.
383(20)
The "Golden Ass"
"The Capitoli" and other minor poems
"Dialogue on Language"
"Description of the Plague"
"Dialogue on Anger and the methods of its cure"
"The tale of the Archfiend Belphagor" Other miner writings
CHAPTER XII.
403(17)
"The Forentine Histories"
Book first, or the general introduction
CHAPTER XIII.
420(28)
The "Istorie Fiorentine"
Bks. and iv. on the domestic history of Florence, clown to the triumph of the Medici
CHAPTER XIV.
448(21)
The "Florentine Histories"
Books v. and vi., or the triumph of the Medici and the Italian wars
Books vii. and viii., or Lorenzo dei Medici and the conspiracies
The "Historical Fragments"
"Extracts from Letters to the Ten of Balla"
The rough sketch of the "histories"
CHAPTER XV.
469(29)
Death of Adrian VI.
Election of Clement VII.
Battle of Pavia
Conspiracy of Morone
CHAPTER XVI.
498(17)
The advance of the Imperial army into Lombardy
Guicciardini as President of Romagna, and as Lieutenant at the camp Machiavcili's return to public life
His journey to Rome
His mission to Guicciardini at Faenza
His journey to Venice
His correspondence with Guicciardini
His nomination as chancellor of the Procuratori della Mura
His superintendence of the works for the fortification of the city
CHAPTER XVII.
515(16)
Attack upon Rome by the Colonna
Truce between the Pope and Emperor
Guicciardini and Machiavelli at the camp
Cremona surrenders to the League
Guicciardini receives orders to withdraw the army across the Pò
The imperial forces advance on Bologna
Unsuccessful attempt to conclude an agreement between the Pope and the Emperor
Machiavelli returns to Florence
Rioting in Florence
The sack of Rome
Expulsion of the Medici, and re-establishment of the Florentine Republic
CHAPTER XVIII.
531(22)
Machiavelli is sent to the camp near Rome
His return to Florence
Fresh calamities and new sorrows
His illness and death
His will
A dream attributed to Machiavelli
CONCLUSION 540(13)
APPENDIX
I. Letters of the Nine of the Militia
553(1)
II. Letter of the Ten to Giovan Battista Bartolini.-27th November, 1507
554(1)
III. Letter of the Gonfalonier Pietro Soderini to Machiavelli.—Firenze, 27th June, 1510
555(1)
IV. Autograph notes by Christina of Sweden, written on the margins of a French translation of Machiavelli's "Prince"
556(9)
V. Two letters of Lodovico Machiavelli to Niccolò his Father
565(2)
VI. Letter of Marietta Machiavelli to her husband Niccolò.—Firenze, Date uncertain
567(1)
VII Five letters of Niccolò Machiavelli to his nephew Giovanni Vernacci at Pera
567(4)
VIII. Letter of Francesco Guicciardini to Machiavelli.—Modena, 18th of May, 1521
571(1)
IX. Epistle of N. Machiavelli on the method of re-organizing the Militia
572(2)
X. Two Sonnets of Niccolò Machiavelli
574(2)
XI. Minutes of Letters, Patents, and Decrees written by Machiavelli when Secretary to the five Procurators of the Walls
576(5)
XII. Letter of Guido Machiavelli to his father Niccolo.—Firenze, 17th April, 1527
581(2)
INDEX 583

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