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Acciaiuoli, Donato
Adams, John
Adolphus, Gustavus
Adriani, Marcello Virgilio, instructions to Machiavelli concerning Giampagolo Baglioni
Aemilius Lepidus
Alamanni, Andrea
Alamanni, Luigi
Alberti, Leon Battista; on love of the fatherland
Aldobrandini, Piero
Alexander III (pope)
Alexander the Great
Alfieri, Vittorio; criticism of the Christian religion; on religion and moral reform; on the teachings of Christ
Allocuzione fatta ad un magistrato (Allocution or Address to a Magistrate [Machiavelli])
Altoviti, Niccolò
Ambrogini, Angelo
Ammirato, Scipione
Annales (Tacitus)
Annali delta Repubblica di Genova (Giustiniani)
antiquity: great men of; influence of on political revolutions; political virtue of; rebirth of
Apologetics (Rosselli)
Apostles, the
Appius Claudius
Apuleius
Aquinas, Thomas
Arendt, Hannah; on Machiavelli’s love for his fatherland; on Machiavelli as the spiritual father of the American Revolution
Arezzo, Florentine control of
Arienti, Sabbadino degli
Aristotle; on the common good
Art of War, The (Machiavelli); attempts to instill new attitudes in the young in; Caterina Sforza in; Fabrizio Colonna in; and the idea of renovation; Machiavelli’s reasons for composing; use of the laudatory genre of rhetoric in
atheism
Athens, under the tyranny of Pisistratus
Attilius Regulus
Augustine
Baglioni, Giampagolo
Bandini, Pietr’Antonio
Banquet, The (Dante)
Baxter, Richard
Becchi, Rcciardo
Belfagor (Machiavelli)
Bellanti, Lucio
Berlin, Isaiah
Bernard, Richard
Bernardino, Piero
Bertelli, Sergio
Biondo, Flavio
Blessed Spirits, The (Gli spiriti beati [Machiavelli])
Bocalosi, Girolamo
Boccaccio
Boccalini, Traiano
Boccella, Enrico
Bonfadini, Vilio
Boni, Bono
Bonifacio, Bernardino
Bonsi, Domenico
Borghini, Vincenzo
Borgia, Cesare; effective use of silence and secrecy by; mythologizing of by Machiavelli
Bornato, Gregorio
Botero, Giovanni,; blame for the ruin of Italy on emperors and not the Catholic Church; on the decline of states due to heresy; rejection of Machiavelli’s ideas on religious reform
Boulanger, Antoine
Bracciolini, Iacopo
Bracciolini, Poggio
Brandolini, Aurelio
Brucioli, Antonio
Bruni, Leonardo; on eloquence as an aid to the fatherland and to Christian religion; on liberty; on writing concerning history
Bruno, Giordano; defense of Machiavelli’s ideas concerning moral and religious reform
Brutus
Buondelmonti, Giovanni
Buondelmonti, Zanobi
Burckhardt, Jacob
Busini, Giovanbattista
Calamandrei, Piero
Calvin, John
Calvinism (Italian)
Cambi, Giovanni
Cambi, Lamberto del Nero
Campanella, Tommaso; attacks on Machiavelli; on the necessity of religious worship in republics
Campano, Giovanni Antonio
Canigiani, Bernardo
Cantimori, Delio
Canto degli spiriti beati (The Blessed Spirits [Machiavelli])
Capponi, Capone
Capponi, Francesco
Capponi, Gino; on Machiavelli as a man without faith
Caracciolo, Antonio
Carducci, Baldassarre
Carducci, Francesco
Carnesecchi, Piero
Casa, Francesco della
Cassimati, Giovanni
Castiglione, Bernardo da
Castracani, Castruccio
Cato
Cavalcanti, Bartolomeo, influence of Machiavelli on his thought
Cavalcanti, Giovanni
Cavour, Camillo
Cerretani, Bartolomeo
Chabod, Federico
charity (caritas); charitable love as disinterested affection; Christian conception of; in contrast to eros; as the foundation of love for the fatherland; as the foundation of patriotism; as the fundamental concept of the Christian religion; Hercules as a symbol of; identification of with agape as opposed to amor; love of the fatherland as a form of charitable love; political and moral effects of
Chipman, Nathaniel
Christian Prince, The (Principe cristiano [Ribadeneyra])
Christian religion. See Christianity
Christiana paradoxa (Brandolini)
Christianity; as an ally of liberty; charity as fundamental concept of; and civil life; corruption of from its beginnings; decline of republican Christianity; as detrimental to virtue and love of the fatherland; discords internal to; interpretation of in colonial America; and liberty; and paganism; as a religion of virtue; reform/renewal of; renovation and charity as fundamental elements of; republican Christianity passim; as servitude; as a source of sloth and vice; as weakening a free way of life
Christians; Christian oratory; and citizenship; and the defense of liberty; duty of; duty of to love and serve the fatherland; ethics of; love of the fatherland as defining Florentine Christians; pursuit of God’s true glory by; superiority of Christian love for the fatherland; “true” Christians
Chrysostom
Church of Santo Spirito, burning of as an act of God
Cicero; on honesty and utility; rules of concerning the subdivision of oration; on speaking so that listeners use their imagination
citizen(s); citizens becoming princes; mastery of rhetorical eloquence as a duty of; role of in the well-ordered republic; service of to religion; as soldiers; virtue of leading to the greatness of the fatherland, See also Christians, and citizenship
civic religious modalities
civil communities
Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples [Istoria civile del regno di Napoli [Giannone])
“civil life”: identification of with mixed government; and the liberty of a city; as a synonym for “political life,”
“civil piety,”
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The (Burckhardt)
Clement VII (pope)
Cleombrotus
clergy. See priests
Clizia (Machiavelli); Nicomaco in
commonwealths
Concerning a Reformation of Italy, that is, Concerning the Means to Reform the Worst Customs and the Most Pernicious Laws of Italy (Di una riforma d’Italia, ossia dei mezzi di reformare i più cattivi costumi e le più perniciose leggi d’Italia (Pilati)
Concerning Revolutions in Accordance with the Gospel (Delle rivoluzioni secondo il Vangelo [Tommaseo])
Concetti politici (Sansovino)
Considerations (Considerazioni [F. Guicciardini])
Consiglio Maggiore (Major Council)
Contarini, Gasparo
Contzen, Adamn
Conversano, Giovanni
Cosefiorentine (Guicciardini)
Council of the Eighty (Consiglio degli Ottanta)
Council of Pisa
Counter-Reformation (in Italy); attacks against Machiavelli during; defense of Machiavelli’s ideas of moral and religious reform during
Court, Pieter de la
Cox, Virginian
Crestomazia italiana (Leopardi)
Crispoldi, Tullio
Croce, Benedetto; development of the idea of a religion of freedom; on Machiavelli’s religious tone when speaking of the State
Cromwell, Oliver
Cuoco, Vincenzo
Cyrus
Dall’Onda, Desiderio Pasolini Dante; on rebirth and renewal
David
De bono communi (Girolami)
De bono pads (Girolami)
De dignitate hominis (Oration on the Dignity of Man [Mirandola])
De incantationibus (Pomponazzi)
De institutione (Quintilian)
De inventione (Cicero)
De libero hominis arbitrio (Bornato)
De nobiliate legum et medicinae (Salutati)
De Optimo cive (Sacchi)
De Oratore (Cicero)
De ratione scribendi libri tres (Brandolini)
De regimine principum (Lucca)
De reipublicae institutione (Spinola)
De studiis et litteris (Bruni)
De Tyranno (C. Salutati)
De vita solitaria (Petrarch)n
Del libero arbitrio dell’Huomo (L. Guicciardini)
Della Ragion di Stato (Botero)
Della religione (Ficino)
Dell’ingratitudine (Tercets on Ingratitude or Envy [Machiavelli])
Democritus
Diacceto, Bernardo di Carlo da
Dialogi (Brucioli)
Dialogo del reggimento di Firenze (Dialogue on the Government of Florence [Guicciardini])
Dialogo della mutatione de Firenze (Cerretani)
Dialogue on Religion (Dialogus cui titulus est religio [Boccella])
Dialogus de libertate (Rinuccini)
dilectio (reasoned affection)
Diotima of Mantinea
Discourses Concerning Government (Sidney)
Discourses on Cornelius Tacitus (Discorsi sopra Cornelio Tacito [Ammirato])
Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli)); ambitious nature of; and the causes of sects; concerning Coriolanus; concerning the death of Manlius Capitolinus; discussion of Christ in; discussion of freedom in; expurgated version of; and the “legend of the fortress,”; Machiavelli’s reasons for composing; on men who “have become gods,”; passage concerning Caterina Sforza; on the religiosity of the Germans; on respect for religious ceremonies; subversive ideas of; “That a Good Citizen Ought to Forget Private Injuries for Love of His Fatherland,”; treatment of religion in; use of commonplaces in; use of the laudatory genre of rhetoric in; use of metaphor in
Discorsi sopra gli Annali di Tito Livio (Giannone)
Discursus florentinarum rerum post mortem iunioris Laurentii Medices (History of Florence and Other Selections [Machiavelli])
Divine Comedy (Dante)
Domenichi, Domenico de’
Doria, Paolo Mattia
Duke of Athens
education; Christian; democratic; moral; pagan; as persuasion; public; religious
“Eight Saints” (Otto Santi), the
Einaudi, Luigi
eloquence. See rhetorical eloquence
Epicharis
Epistola al Duce, al Senato, e a tutto il popolo di Genova (Giustiniani)
Erasmus
Essay upon the Constitution of the Roman Government (Moyle)
Europae speculum: or, A view or survey of the state of religion (Relazione dello stato della religione [Sandys])
Exhortation to Free Italy from the Barbarians (Esortazione a liberar I’ltalia dai barbari [Alfieri])
Exhortation to Penitence (Esortazione alla penitenza [Machiavelli])
Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, The (Spaccio della bestia trionfante [Bruno])
Ezekiel
Fabius
Fabricius
faith: and civic humanism; and the morality necessary for good government
fascism
fate; influence of the stars onn
fatherland, love of; among the ancientsn; cause of; Christian love of the fatherland; divine character of; as a duty; as a form of charitable love; as love of the common good; as a love that makes men godlike; Roman use of caritas or pietas to describe; as similar to love for a womann; as the true root of virtue
Fermo, Francesco Gentile da
Ferreri, Zaccaria
Ficino, Marsilio
Filangieri, Gaetano
Fiorentino, Francesco
Florence, Republic of; Christianity of; civil discord and factional strife in; civil religiosity of the Florentines; decline of the Christian faith in; dual nature of Machiavelli’s love for (placing the good of the Republic above the practice of religion and love for the Republic over individual good); expansionist policies of toward Pisa, Siena, and Lucca; factions within; God as a friend to; as the new Jerusalem; political rhetoric of concerning faithfulness; religious and moral reformation in; revolt of the Ciompi in; threats against by Cesare Borgia; war with the papacy; wars of to regain Pisa
Florentine Histories (Machiavelli); consideration of the consolatory power of religion in; on corruption and sects; description of Lorenzo the Magnificent; expurgated version of; on free cities; oration to the Duke of Athens in; oration based on the theme of necessity,–; orations based on the themes of compassion and the fear of God; possible reference to the Protestant Reformation in; revolt of the Ciompi in; teaching of political
Florentine Histories (continued) wisdom and the love of liberty in; technique of contrast used in; use of deliberative rhetoric in
Florentines; compromise of with rebellious citiesn; disrespect of for justice; opinion of German Christianity
For a Republican Lombardy (Per la Lombardia repubblicana [Ranza])
force, use of when words fail
Foscolo, Ugo
First Decennale (Decennale primo [Machiavelli]); on Savonarola
free will
French Revolution, the
Galdi, Matteo
Gallican Council (1511)
Garin, Eugenio
Genoa, Republic of
Germans, “ancient goodness” of
Germany, free cities of
Gianni, Astorre
Giannone, Pietro; on civil theology; praise for the religion of the Romans
Giannotti, Donato
Giles of Rome
Gioberti, Vincenzo; on Machiavelli and the religion of virtue
Giovio, Giovanni Battista
Giovio, Paolo
Ginzburg, Leone
Girolami, Remigio de’
Giustiniani, Agostino
glory: defense of earthly glory by Italian humanists; desire for earthly glory as unworthy of a Christian; human desire for; Machiavellis interpretation of; as a reward for the pursuit of virtue
Gobetti, Piero; on Machiavellis God; on moral reform; on the religion of liberty
God; command of to love justice; as the creator; development of Machiavellis God into a “religion of liberty,”; fear of; free will as God’s greatest gift to mankind; as a friend to wicked men; friendship of; glory of; God as charity; God in the consciousness of Florentines; God’s love of civil government; God’s love for free cities; God’s love of justice; God’s love for those who love their fatherland; God’s love for those who possess glory, power, and immortality on earth; God’s love for those who possess virtue; God’s pardon for a prince’s cruelty; as hope and refuge for the downtrodden; justice as an attribute of; as lawgiver; love of by humans; man’s duty to; role of in civil government; signs of God’s friendship; use of extraordinary events by as warnings or punishments; viewed in the republican tradition of Florence; views of in colonial America
Godfrey of Bouillon
Goineo, Giovan Battista
Golden Ass (L’Asino [Apuleius])
Gramsci, Antonio
Grazia, Sebastian den
Great Council (Consiglio Grande)
Greek republics
Greeks
Gregory XI (pope)
Groto, Luigi
Guicciardini, Francesco; condemnation of the Protestant Reformation; denunciation of the corruption of the Church
Guicciardini, Luigi; oration of based on commonplaces and clichés
Hannibal
Harrington, James
Hercules; as the symbol of charity
Histories (Tacitus)
history: as the best source of political wisdom; power of to instill a love of virtue
History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century (Storia di Europa nel secolo XIX [Croce])
History of France, The (Histoire de France [Michelet])
History of the Italian Republics, A: Being a View of the Origin, Progress and Fall of Italian Freedom (Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen age [Sismondi])
Hobbes, Thomas
Holy League
Holy Scripture
Holy Spirit
honesty. See utility/honesty debate
Horace
humanism; and charity; civil/civic humanism; Italian/Florentine humanism
humor/laughter, and classical rhetoric
Huss, John
idleness; morality based on; religion of
immortality; Machiavelli’s search for; role of the heavens in; yearning for and the desire to become godlike
Index of Forbidden Books; reasons for Machiavelli’s works being placed on
Inglese, Giorgio
Inquisition, the
“instrumentum liberatis”
“instrumentum regni,”
Istoria Fiorentina (P. Bracciolini)
Italian city-states
Italian Risorgimento; and the religion of liberty passim
Italy; fascism in; lack of public spirit in; need for a true religion in; wickedness of Italians due to religious corruption,. See also Italy, redemption and moral reform of in the writers of the eighteenth century; reform, moral and religious
Italy, redemption and moral reform of in the writers of the eighteenth century passim; during mid-century; importance of the preservation and love of the fatherland to Italy; lack of virtue in Italy
Jacobins (Italian)
Jansenists; idolization of Machiavelli
Jerome of Prague
Jesus Christ; charity of; Christ’s kingdom; as a “creator of political liberty,”; laws of; as representative of the divine idea of virtue; teachings of
Jews
Jolaus
Julius II (pope)
Julius Caesar
Junius Brutus
justice; as an attribute of God; disrespect for among the Florentines; as a divine virtue; as the highest virtue; promotion of; religious significance of
Kendall, Samuel
Lactantius
Latini, Brunetto
L’Aurora, Enrico Michele
lawgivers; as lovers of God’s wisdom; as similar to God; as “sons of God,”
laws; administration of punishment for breaking the law; Christian law; defense of; and freedom; respect for; the rule of law. See also lawgivers
Leighton, Alexander
Leo X (pope)
Leopardi, Giacomo; critique of Christianity; on love of the fatherland; on Machiavelli and virtue; opinion of Machiavelli; on the religion of virtue
liberty; civil liberty; defense of; as equality ensured by law; inseparability of from Christianity; examples of free people (the Romans, Etruscans, Samnites, and German free cities) as profoundly religious; examples of those corrupted (Italians, French, and Spanish) without religion; in Italy; love of,–; and the Kingdom of God; political liberty; political liberty as God’s gift; religion of liberty; religious/spiritual liberty; republican liberty; and virtue,. See also Italian Risorgimento, and the religion of liberty
Libri della famiglia (Alberti)
Libro del poema chiamato Città di Vita (Palmieri)
Life and Deeds of Gian Piero Carafa, Pope Paul IIII (Vita et gesti di Giovan Pietro cioè di Paolo IV Pontefice Massimo [Caracciolo])
Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, The (Niccolò Machiavelli e i suoi tempi [Villari])
Life and Writings of Niccolò Machiavelli in Their Connection with Machiavellism (La vita egli scritti di Niccolò Machiavelli nella loro relazione col Machiavellismo [Tommasini])
Lippi, Domenicon
Livyn
love. See also charity; fatherland. love of; love, erotic
love, erotic; erotic passion as an essential part of love; metaphor of the golden netsn; power of; surrendering to
Lucca, Tolomeo da
Lucius Manlius
Lucrezia (La Riccia)
Luther, Martin
Lycurgus
Machiavel républicain (Anonymous)
Machiavelli, Bernardon
Machiavelli, Guido
Machiavelli, Ludovico
Machiavelli, Niccolò; address of to Giampagolo Baglioni,–; on the ancient goodness of the German people; as the Antichrist; on the arrogance of the nobility; on the art of politics; as an atheist and pagan; audience with the king of France; belief in astrology; belief in free speech; belief in the occult and in intelligent presences; books of his owned by those under interrogation by the Inquisition; charges of heresy against; on charity; as a Christian,n; on Christian and pagan morality; comments on the actions of Pier Soderini; comments on the death of Paolo Vitelli and the condemnation of prominent Florentine citizens; condemnation of Florentine expansionist policies; criticism of church/papal corruption; criticism of by Dutch political thinkers; on democracy; desire of to end the temporal power of the popes; development of political myths by passim; disdain for confession; disdain for the ideas of hell and purgatory; on erotic love; familiarity with sexual passion; familiarity with the art of rhetoric; familiarity with the Protestant Reformation; on fear and corruption; on the founders of cities/governments and lawgivers as similar to God; friendships of with women; on government by the aristocracy; indifference of to the salvation of his soul; inspiration of his political writings; interpretation of extraordinary events as punishments or warnings from God; invocations of Christ in his writings; invocations of God in his letters; and libertinism; love for his fatherland (the Florentine Republic); love of and search for immortality; loyalty of to the house of Medici; as a man who lacks faith; as the Martin Luther of Italy; as a master of ars dicendi (art of speaking); on military discipline and a soldier’s oath; on military virtue; mythologizing of Caterina Sfroza,–; mythologizing of Cesare Borgia; on the nature of shame; opinion of Savonarola’s sermons; oratory and rhetoric of; poem of concerning San Torpè; as a prophet; as a puritan; reading of the Bible byn; on reformation and renovation in the church and in Florence; republicanism of; respect for the rules of classical rhetoric; on the revolt of the Ciompi; on the rule of law; service to the Florentine Republic; Spinoza’s opinion of; technique of deliberative style used by,; as a “true lover,”; as unaffected by the religious impulses of the Renaissance; use of historical examples in his writingn; use of humor in his plays; values of pagan morality; vision of history as cyclical; work of with the Minorite Friars of Capri; writing and rhetorical duties of as secretary of the second chancellery,. See also Machiavelli, Niccolò, interpretation of the cosmos; Machiavelli, Niccolò, and the religion of virtue; Machiavelli, Niccolò, views of religion
Machiavelli, Niccolò, interpretation of the cosmos: fickleness of Fortuna in; God as creator of the universe; God’s influence in; influence of the stars on faten; occult power contained in the heavens; population of (Fortuna, God, the heavens); role of Fortuna in; role of the heavens in
Machiavelli, Niccolò, and the religion of virtue passim;; belief of that God welcomes pagan rulers into the ranks of the blessed; on Italy and the friendship of God
Machiavelli, Niccolò, views of religion; belief of that without religion republics are corrupted; consolatory power of religion; in cultural and political contexts; as an element of a “well-ordered” state; influence of among Italian Calvinists; influence of among Italian evangelists; as intrinsic “to the soul of the people,”; mocking of religion by Machiavelli. See also Machiavelli, Niccolò, and the religion of virtue
Machiavelli (L. Russo)
“Machiavellian Atheists,”
Maelius
Malatesta, Battista
Malatesta, Galeazzo
Mandrake, The (La Mandragola [Machiavelli]); criticism of the decline of religion in; Nicea in
Manetti, Giannozzo
Manlius Capitolinus
Manzoni, Alessandro
Marano, Manusso
Marchand, Jean-Jacques
Marcus Curtius
Marcus Pomponius
Martelli, Ludovico
Martelli, Mario
Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor)
Mazzini, Giuseppen; beliefs of concerning Christianity; on the French Revolution; on the Jesuits and Machiavelli; on Machiavelli and religion of virtue; on the rebirth of Italy; recognition of the Machiavelli/Machiavellianism distinction; theory of religion as necessary for the emancipation of a people
Medici, Cosimo de’
Medici, Giovanni de’
Medici, Giulio de
Medici, Lodovico de’
Medici, Lorenzo de’
Medici, Salvestro de’
Medici regime
Menchi, Silvana Seidel
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Micanzio, Fulgenzio
Michelet, Jules
Minuta di provvisione per la riforma dello stato di Firenze (Machiavelli)
Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della
Monaci, Lorenzo de’
monarchy/monarchies; as an enemy of Christ; hereditary
Montesquieu
Moralia (Plutarch)
morality; based on idleness; casuistical; Catholic; Christian; civil; evangelical; pagan;“pure,”; Roman
More, Thomas
Moses; charity of; and the friendship of God; God as his teacher; killing of those who worshipped the golden calf
Moyle, Walter
Muratori, Lodovico Antonio
Neapolitan Revolution
Nero
Nero, Bernardo del
Nesi, Giovanni; on love for the fatherland
Neville, Henry
Nicodemism
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Numa Pompilius
Of Civil Life (Vita civile)
Of the Democratic Education to be Imparted to the Italian People (Dell’educazione democratica da darsi al popolo italiano [Bocalosi])
Of Elegancies (Valla)
Of the Perfect Chancellor (Del perfetto cancelliere [Piccolomini])
On Sepulchres (Sepolcri [Foscolo])
Opus Posthumus (Spinoza)
Oratio de caritate (Nesi)
Oratio de humilitate (Nesi)
Oratio pro pace Italiae (Domenichi)
oratory: deliberative oratoryn; the “good man” as the true orator; honesty and utility as the objects of. See also rhetorical eloquence
Orco, Ramirro de, execution of
orders and customs, reform of; corruption as originating from orders that nourish sects; restoration of law as an achievement bringing glory
Ovid
paganism; Christianity and; pagan morality. See also religion, pagan
Palmieri, Matteo
Pamphilia
Pandolfini, Filippo
papacy, the
Papal States
Papirius Cursor
Paruta, Paolo
Paterno, Giovanni Antonio
Payson, Phillips
Perna, Pietro; determination to distribute the work of Machiavelli
Perry, Joseph
persuasion, and political action
Petrarca, Francesco
Petrarchn; on the myth of rebirth
Piccolomini, Bartolomeo Carli
Pilati, Carlantonio; on the rebirth of Italy; on wicked clergy
Pisa
Plato
Platonism, “popular,”
Plato redivivus (Neville)
Plutarch
Pocock, John G. A.
poets
political constitutions, reformation of
political debatesn
political revolution, and republican Christianity
political wisdom, history as the source of
Politics (Aristotle)
Politike Discoursen (de la Court)
Polybius
Pompey
Pomponazzi, Pietro; on the influence of stars on religion; on the natural cycles of religion
Pontano, Giovanni
popes; temporal power of. See also papacy, the
Porcari, Stefano
praise, of others
Predica sopra Aggeo (Sermon on Haggai)
Price, Richard
priests; corruption of; and the ruin of Italy; taxes on; tyranny of; veneration of; violence of; wickedness and ignorance of
Prince, The (Machiavelli) passim; criticism of the Exhortatio; dedicatory letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici; on God’s pardon of a prince’s cruelties; importance of the Exhortatio to; importance of Rhetorica ad Herennium to understanding the structure of; irony in; Machiavelli’s claim that the writing of was similar to painting; Machiavelli’s reasons for composing.
Prince, The (Machiavelli) (continued); on persuasion/oratory backed by force of arms; Rhetorica ad Herennium as the hidden plot of; rhetorical structure of; strict compliance of to the rules of ars poetica; translations of; understanding the content of; use of deliberative oratory in,–; use of historical examples in; utility/honesty debate in
principalities
Pro Cluentio (Cicero)
Protestant Reformation
Providence (divine Providence)
Provision of the Ordinance of the Militia (Provisione delta ordinanza [Machiavelli])
Pucci, Giannozzo
Puritanism
Quinet, Edgar
Quintilian; on narrating a story as if painting a picture
Quintus Fabius
Ragguagli di Parnaso (Boccalini)
Ranza, Giovanni Antonio
reform, moral and religious passim; charity as the power behind reform; comparison of Italian customs to the “good” customs of the Germans; failure of; in Florence; fundamental principle of; heresy and aspirations for religious reform, passim; and liberty; Machiavelli’s role in; meaning of (reformation and regeneration); need for; and new forms of worship; New Testament calls for; the phoenix as symbol of; Savonarola’s call for; sources of; through the power of faith
Regimine Principum Libri III (Giles of Rome)
religion; as both “instrumentum regni” and as the profound life of the people; as a brake against unjust wars; civil religion; consolatory power of; customs and religion; decline of under Emperor Arnulf; founders of; of liberty; as a means and an end; as more important in republics than monarchies; as necessary to the creation of good laws and good armies; as necessary for the emancipation of a people; pagan; primacy of caritas to; and public liberty; puritan views of,–; “Religion of Benevolence,”; religion of Utopia; religion, war, and social conflict passim; religious freedom; similarities between religion of Machiavelli and the religion of colonial Americans; as stronger than laws; superiority of over the state; superstitions as source of religious authority; as a teacher of civil virtues,. See also Christianity; idleness, religion of; Machiavelli, Niccolò, and the religion of virtue; Italian Risorgimento, and the religion of liberty; Machiavelli, Niccolò, views of religion; reform, moral and religious; rhetoric, and civil religion; republican government, and religion; Romans/Roman Empire, religion of
Renaissance, the
republican government, and religion passim; effect of religion on citizens of the republic; equation of with liberty; love of the fatherland and love of religion; necessity of the Christian religion as the moral essence of a republic; religion as a bulwark against tyranny; religion as necessary to the preservation of government; religion and political power; role of government in the care of religion; union of religion and republic as part of God’s divine plan
republicanism; Anglo-Saxon; Florentine; history of
republics; aristocratic; importance of free speech to; as the kingdom of Christ; moral foundation of; popular; renewal and religious reform of; and respect for the law; role of the citizenry in; as self-governing political communities; self-government and the rule of law as fundamental principles of; survival of. See also republican government, and religion
Research into the Origin of Oriental Despotism (Recherches sur l’origine du respotisme oriental [Boulanger])
Revolutions of Italy, The (Les Révolutions d’ltalie [Quinet])
Rhetorica ad Herennium (Cicero); as the hidden plot of The Prince; importance of to understanding the structure of The Prince
rhetorical eloquence; and civil religion; flourishing of in a free society; humor and classical rhetoric; importance of rhetorical eloquence inseparable from Christian truth; laudatory genre of; Machiavelli’s criticism of superficial eloquence; as the necessary foundation of civil life; oration in front of the Signori (protestation de iustitia); and philosophy; political life as the venue for; political rhetoric of the Florentines; power of to conceal evil intentions; praise for civil, poetic, and religious eloquence; public councils as natural venue for; religions use of persuasion instead of demonstration; rhetorical figure of the interrogation; technique of changing readers/listeners into spectators; use of amplificatio and extenuatio rhetorical devices; use of in defense of liberty; use of in motivating soldiers; and wisdom passim
Ribadeneyra, Pedro
Ricci, Giuliano de’; and the expurgation of Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories
Ricordi (F. Guicciardini)
Ricordi (Rinuccini)
Ridolfi, Niccolò
Rienzo, Cola di
Rinuccini, Alamanno; on justice
Ritratto del vero governo del Principe (Rosello)
Rivoluzione liberale (Gobetti)
Robespierre
Roman Catholic Church; abuses of; corruption of; defense of by Giovanni Botero and Paolo Paruta; and everyday morality
Roman law, on the status of a free individual
Romans/Roman Empire; defeat of at Cannae by Hannibal; as examples of men resembling the gods; expansionist policies of; greatness of Rome due to religion; greatness of Rome as God’s design; incompatibility of with freedom; liberty as the Romans’ source of virtue and power
Romans/Roman Empire (continued); religion of; the Roman Republic
Rome; attempted restoration of the republic
Romulus
Rosello, Lucio Paolo
Rosselli, Carlo
Rosselli, Nello
Rosselli, Tiberio
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; on Christianity; on civil religion; on Machiavelli; Machiavelli’s influence on
Rucellai, Cosimo
Rucellai, Giovanni
Rules for an Elegant Social Circle (Capitoli per una compagnia di piacere [Machiavelli])
Russo, Luigi; on Machiavelli as a prophet
Russo, Vincenzio; criticism of Machiavelli
Sabellico, Marc’Antonio
Sacchi, Bartolomeo (Platina)
Sallust
Salutati, Barbara
Salutati, Coluccio; on charity; on Christian love of the fatherland; on the importance of rhetorical eloquence; on liberty; on man’s duty to God
Sanctis, Francesco De; eulogy of for Machiavelli; on the failure of religious reform in Italy; on the religion of the fatherland
Sandys, Edwin
Sanfelice, Giuseppe
Sansovino, Francesco
Sarpi, Paolo; influence of Machiavelli on his beliefs concerning priests and religious corruption
Sartorio
Sasso, Gennaro
Savonarola, Girolamo; call of for renewal and reform in the church; on charity and humility; on civil government; on civil government and religion; defeat of; on the four principles of good government; on religion and virtue; on the restoration of the Middle Ages; vindication of by Italian history
Scioppio, Gaspare
Scipio Africanus; as a divine man
Sforza, Caterina; factual versus mythical interpretation of; and the “legend of the fortress,”; Machiavelli’s sources concerning; virtue of
Sforza, Francesco
Sidney, Algernon; on good men imitating bad princes; on political constitutions
Signoria; instructions of to Machiavelli
Sismondi, J. C. Léonard Simonde de
Sixtus IV (pope)
Social Contract (Contrat Social [Rousseau])
Socialismo liberale (C. Rosselli)
Socrates
Soderini, Gonfalonier Pier
Soderini, Francesco
Solon
Sommario della istoria d’ltalia (F. Vettori)
Somnium Scipionis (Cicero)
Spagnuoli, Giambattista
Speculum belli sacri (Leighton)
speech, freedom of
Speroni, Sperone
Spinola, Ludovico
Spinoza, Baruch
Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu)
St. Bernard
St. Dominic
St. Francis; emulation of by preachers
St. Gregory the Great
St. Hippolytus Martyr
St. Jerome
St. Matthew
St. Paul
St. Peter
Stout, Jeffrey
Strozzi, Alessandro
Strozzi, Filippo
Studio Fiorentino
Tacitus
Tanucci, Bernardo
Tanzani, Reginaldo
Tebalducci, Antonio Giacomini
Tegli, Stefano
Ten of Liberty and Peace
Ten of War
“teofilantropismo” (theophilanthropism)
Theophrastus redivivus (Anonymous)
Theseus
Tinkler, John F.
To Italy in the Shadows Dawn Brings Light (All’Italia nelle tenebre l’aurora porta la luce [L’Aurora])
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Tommaseo, Niccolò; on the duty of Christians; refutation of Machiavelli’s paganism; on virtue in Machiavelli
Tornabuoni, Lorenzo
Tractatus politicus (Political Treatise [Spinoza])
Tractatus theologico-politicus (Theologico-political Treatise [Spinoza])
Trajan
Trattati nove della prudenza (Piccolomini)
Trattato dell’umiltà (Savonarola)
Treatise on the Government of the City of Florence (Trattato circa el reggimento della città di Firenze [Savonarola])
Treatise of the Three Imposters, The: The Life and Spirit of Master Benedict de Spinosa (Traité des trios imposteurs [Anonymous])
Tresor (Book of the Treasure [Latini])
Trissino, Alessandro
Tuscans
Tuscany, storm that ravaged it as an act of God
tyrants/tyranny; of priests, See also Athens, under the tyranny of Pisistratus
University of Florence
utility/honesty debate; honesty as secondary to security; relationship between the useful and the honest; utility as meaning both security and honesty
Valdes, Juan de
Valla, Lorenzo; on the eloquence of ancient books; on oratory and persuasion
Vanini, Giulio Cesare
Varchi, Benedetto
Venice, Republic of; weakness of
Vergerio, Pier Paolo
Vernacci, Giovanni
Vettori, Francesco; indecisiveness concerning love for a woman; on the message of Christ; on the Roman papacy
Vettori, Piero
Viaggio in Alamagna (F. Vettori)
Vicenza, as a latter-day Athens
Vico, Giambattista
Villari, Pasquale
virtue; charity as the highest virtue; Christianity as a religion of; duty of man to elevate himself through; elements of civil virtue; joining of Christian virtues with civil virtues; justice as the
virtue (continued)
highest virtue; and love of the fatherland; necessity of in establishing and maintaining liberty; political virtue; as a principle for government; public virtue; as strength in the face of danger; “true virtue,”; of women
Vitelli, Paolo
Vitellozzo, Vitelli
Vita di Castruccio Castracani (The Life of Castruccio Castracani [Machiavelli])
Vita civile (Palmieri)
Vivanti, Corrado
Volusius Proculus
Vulgate
war passim; just and unjust war; the Christian soldier; religion as a brake against unjust war
War of the Eight Saints
Weinstein, David
“Where the Guard of freedom May Be settled More Securely, in the People or in the Great” (Machiavelli)
Words to Be Spoken on the Law for Appropriating Money, after Giving a Little Introduction and Excuse (Parole da dirle sopra la provisione del danaio, facto un poco di proemio et di scusa [Machiavelli])
Works (Machiavelli [Cambiagi edition])
Wortman, Tunis
Zibaldone (Leopardi)