Bibliography

Works by Machiavelli

For the Discourses I have used:

Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio. Edited by Giorgio Inglese. Milan: Rizzoli, sixth edition, 2008.

For the Prince:

Il Principe. Edited by Giorgio Inglese. Turin: Einaudi, 1995.

For the Florentine Histories:

Istorie fiorentine e altre opere storiche e politiche. Edited by Alessandro Montevecchi. Turin: Utet, 1986.

For all other works:

Tutte le opere. Edited by Mario Martelli. Milan: Sansoni, 1993. (Cited in the text as Opere.)

For those who do not yet know Italian (not a very difficult language), I recommend the following translations:

Discourses on Livy. Translated by Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

The Prince. Translated by Harvey Mansfield. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, second edition, 1998.

Florentine Histories. Translated by Laura Banfield and Harvey Mansfield. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Art of War. Translated by Christopher Lynch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Works by Other Authors

Averroes. 2001. The Book of the Decisive Treatise Determining the Connection Between Law and Wisdom and the Epistle Dedicatory. Translated by Charles E. Butterworth. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press.

Bacon, Francis. 1985. The Essays. Edited by John Pitcher. London: Penguin Books.

Baron, Hans. 1988. In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, vol. II. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Berlin, Isaiah. 1969. “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Four Essays on Liberty, 118–72. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

———. 1980. “The Originality of Machiavelli.” In Against the Current, 25–79. London: Hogarth Press.

Blake, Robert. [1966] 1998. Disraeli. London: Prion Books, Ltd.

Bock, Gisela, Quentin Skinner, and Maurizio Viroli, eds. 1990. Machiavelli and Republicanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cassirer, Ernst. [1946] 2007. The Myth of the State. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.

Chabod, Federico. 1964. Scritti su Machiavelli. Turin: Einaudi.

Coby, J. Patrick. 1999. Machiavelli’s Romans: Liberty and Greatness in the Discourses on Livy. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Colish, Marcia L. 1978. “Cicero’s De Officiis and Machiavelli’s Prince.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 9 no. 4: 80–93.

———. 1999. “Republicanism, Religion and Machiavelli’s Savonarolan Moment.” The Journal of the History of Ideas 60 no. 4: 597–616.

Collingwood, R.G. 1939. An Autobiography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Connell, William J. 2001. “Machiavelli on Growth as an End” in Historians and Ideologues, ed. Anthony Grafton and J.H.M. Salmon, 259–77. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

Constant, Benjamin. 1997. Écrits politiques. Paris: Gallimard.

Croce, Benedetto. 1925. Elementi di politica. Bari: Laterza.

———. 1952. Indagini su Hegel e schiarimenti filosofici. Bari: Laterza.

De Sanctis, Francesco. [1870] 1950. Storia della letteratura italiana, vol. IV. Milan: Universale Economica.

De Grazia, Sebastian. 1989. Machiavelli in Hell. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Dietz, Mary. 1986. “Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception.” The American Political Science Review 80 no. 3: 777–99.

Drury, Shadia B. [1988] 2005. The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, Updated Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fischer, Markus. 1997. “Machiavelli’s Political Psychology.” The Review of Politics 59 no. 4: 789–829.

Fontana, Benedetto. 1999. “Love of Country and Love of God: The Political Uses of Religion in Machiavelli.” The Journal of the History of Ideas 60 no. 4: 639–58.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe. [1888] 2008. Memorie. Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli.

Germino, Dante. 1966. “Second Thoughts on Strauss’s Machiavelli.” The Journal of Politics 28, no. 4: 794–817.

Gilbert, Felix. 1984. Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence. New York: Norton.

———. 1986. “Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War.” In Makers of Modern Strategy, edited by Peter Paret, 11–31. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Giorgini, Giovanni. 2008. “The Place of the Tyrant in Machiavelli’s Political Thought and the Literary Genre of the Prince.” History of Political Thought 29, no. 2: 230–56.

Grafton, John, ed. 2000. The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History. Mineola, NY: Dover.

Guicciardini, Francesco. 2000. Considerazioni intorno ai Discorsi del Machiavelli. In Niccolò Machiavelli, Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, ed. Corrado Vivanti. Turin: Einaudi.

Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay. [1788] 2003. The Federalist Papers. Edited by Clinton Rossiter, introduction and notes by Charles Kesler. New York: Signet Classic.

Hornqvist, Mikael. 2004. Machiavelli and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hulliung, Mark. 1983. Citizen Machiavelli. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Inglese, Giorgio. 2006. Per Machiavelli: L’arte dello stato, la cognizione delle storie. Rome: Carocci.

———, ed. 2008. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, sixth edition. Milan: Rizzoli.

Kant, Immanuel. 1996. Practical Philosophy. Translated and edited by Mary J. Gregor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lefort, Claude. 1972. Le travail de l’oeuvre Machiavel. Paris: Gallimard.

Lincoln, Abraham. 1989. Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832–1858. Edited by Don Fehrenbacher. New York: Library of America.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. 1889. “Machiavelli.” In Lord Macaulay’s Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome, 28–51. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

Mansfield, Harvey. 1975. “Strauss’s Machiavelli.” Political Theory 3 no. 4: 372–84. Reprinted in Mansfield 1996, 219–30.

———. 1975a. “Reply to Pocock.” Political Theory 3 no. 4: 402–5.

———. 1979. Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. 1989. Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power. New York: The Free Press.

———. 1996. Machiavelli’s Virtue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mansfield, Harvey and Nathan Tarcov. 1996. Introduction to their translation of Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Martelli, Mario. 1999. Saggio sul Principe. Rome: Salerno Editrice.

Marzocchi, Virginio. 2004. Le ragioni dei diritti umani. Naples: Liguori.

Mattingly, Garrett. 1960. “Machiavelli’s Prince: Political Science or Political Satire?” In Machiavelli: Cynic, Patriot, or Political Scientist? Edited by De Lamar Jensen, 98–108. Boston: D.C. Heath and Co. Originally published in The American Scholar 27 (1958): 482–91.

McCormick, John P. 1993. “Addressing the Political Exception: Machiavelli’s ‘Accidents’ and the Mixed Regime” American Political Science Review 87 no. 4: 888–900.

———.2001. “Machiavellian Democracy: Controlling Elites with Ferocious Populism.” American Political Science Review 95 no. 2: 297–313.

———. 2003. “Machiavelli against Republicanism: On the Cambridge School’s ‘Guicciardinian Moments.’” Political Theory 31 no. 5: 615–43.

———. 2011. Machiavellian Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Najemy, John M. 1999. “Papirius and the Chickens, or Machiavelli on the Necessity of Interpreting Religion.” The Journal of the History of Ideas 60 no. 4: 659–81.

Nederman, Cary J. 1999. “Amazing Grace: Fortune, God, and Free Will in Machiavelli’s Thought.” The Journal of the History of Ideas 60 no. 4: 617–38.

Parel, Anthony J. 1992. The Machiavellian Cosmos. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Patten, Alan. 1996. “The Republican Critique of Liberalism.” British Journal of Political Science 26 no. 1: 25–44.

Pettit, Philip. 1997. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Pocock, J.G.A. [1975] 2003. The Machiavellian Moment, second edition with a new afterward. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

———. 1975a. “Prophet and Inquisitor: Or, A Church Built upon Bayonets Cannot Stand: A Reply to Mansfield’s ‘Strauss’s Machiavelli.’” Political Theory 3 no. 4: 385–401.

Rahe, Paul A. 2000. “Situating Machiavelli” in Renaissance Civic Humanism, ed. James Hankins, 270–308. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

———, ed. 2006. Machiavelli’s Liberal Republican Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

———. 2008. Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rawls, John. 1985. “Justice as Fairness: Political Not Metaphysical.” Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 14, no. 3: 223–51.

———. 2005. Political Liberalism, expanded edition. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ridolfi, Roberto. 1969. Vita di Niccolò Machiavelli. Florence: Sansoni.

Sasso, Gennaro. 1967. Studi su Machiavelli. Naples: Morano.

———. 1993. Niccolò Machiavelli, vol. I: Il pensiero politico. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Savonarola, Girolamo. 1965. Prediche sopra Aggeo con il Trattato circa il reggimento e governo della città di Firenze. Edited by Luigi Firpo. Rome: Angelo Belardetti Editore.

Skinner, Quentin. 1978. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Volume One: The Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

———. [1981] 2000. Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published as Machiavelli by Oxford University Press.

———. 1988. “A Reply to My Critics” in Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics, edited by James Tully, 231–88. Cambridge: Polity Press.

———. 1990. “The Republican Ideal of Political Liberty” in Bock, Skinner and Viroli 1990, 293–309.

———. 1998. Liberty Before Liberalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

———. 2002. Visions of Politics,Volume I: Regarding Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

———. 2002a. Visions of Politics, Volume II: Renaissance Virtues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Strauss, Leo. [1952] 1988. Persecution and the Art of Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. 1953. Natural Right and History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. [1958] 1978. Thoughts on Machiavelli. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. [1959] 1988a. What is Political Philosophy? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

———. 1983. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sullivan, Vickie B. 1992. “Machiavelli’s Momentary ‘Machiavellian Moment’: A Reconsideration of Pocock’s Treatment of the Discourses.” Political Theory 20 no. 2: 309–18.

———. 1996. Machiavelli’s Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.

———. 2004. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Tarcov, Nathan. 1982. “Quentin Skinner’s Method and Machiavelli’s Prince.” Ethics 92 no. 4: 692–709.

———. 2007. “Freedom, Republics and Peoples in Machiavelli’s Prince” in Freedom and the Human Person, ed. Richard Velkley, 122–42. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.

———. 2010. “Machiavelli’s Modern Turn.” Lecture delivered at the Catholic University of America.

———. 2014. “Machiavelli’s Critique of Religion.” Social Research 81 no. 1: 193–216.

Viroli, Maurizio. 1998. Machiavelli. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

———. 1999. Repubblicanesimo. Rome-Bari: Laterza.

Zuckert, Michael. 1985. “Appropriation and Understanding in the History of Political Philosophy: On Quentin Skinner’s Method.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 13 no. 3: 403–24.