The Quotable Machiavelli
The Quotable Machiavelli
Editor: Viroli, Maurizio
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-691-16436-6
Category: Language & Literature - Quotations
Image Count:
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In The Quotable Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli, one of the worlds leading Machiavelli scholars, offers a rich collection of the Florentines most memorable words on a wide range of subjects, including politics, the human condition, religion, love and happiness, antiquity and history, patriotism, and virtue.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- INTRODUCTION
- CHRONOLOGY
- NOTE ON THE TEXTS
- I. Machiavelli on Himself, His Family, and Friends
- II. Machiavelli Described by His Relatives, Friends, and Lovers
- III. Man and Cosmos
- Devils and Hell
- Fortune
- God's and the Heavens’ Influence on Human Affairs
- God's Mercy
- Good and Evil
- Prophecies
- Purgatory
- Return to Beginnings
- The Universe, Its Hidden Power
- The World and Its Eternity
- IV. The Human Condition
- Antiquity and the Ancients
- Avarice
- Beasts
- Bloodshed
- Compassion
- Concealment
- Confession
- Conscience
- Courage (Animo)
- Cowardice
- Cruelty
- Death
- The Death Penalty
- Deceit
- Decline
- Desire
- Despair
- Discourse
- Disease
- Dishonesty
- The End Result
- Error
- Fault
- Fear
- Flattery
- Fraud
- Glory
- Goals
- The Good and Goodness
- Greatness of Soul
- Growth
- Hatred
- History
- Honesty
- Horror
- Humility
- Imitation
- Infamy
- Ingratitude
- Insolence
- Love
- The Mind
- Miracles
- New Ways, New Continents
- Old Times
- Opportunity
- Order and Disorder
- Passions and Their Remedies
- Patriotism
- Peace
- Prudence
- Punishment
- Rebirth (Renaissance)
- Religion and the Reform of Religions
- Saints
- Science
- Severity
- Sin
- Stupidity
- Suspicion
- Virtue
- Women
- Words
- V. Political Life
- Accusations and Calumnies
- Agrarian Law
- Ambition
- The Aristocracy
- The Army and Soldiers
- Artillery
- Authority
- Cavalry
- Cities
- Citizenship
- Colonies
- Constitution
- Corruption
- Dictatorship
- Disorders
- Empires and Emperors
- Equality
- Errors
- Expansion
- Extraordinary Measures
- Fortresses
- The Founders and Reformers of States
- Gold
- Gonfalonier (Highest Magistrate of the Republic of Florence)
- Government
- Laws
- Liberality
- Liberty and Its Safekeeping
- Ministers
- Mixed Government
- The Multitude
- Opinion, Freedom of
- The People
- Popular Government
- Poverty
- The Prince
- Public Honors
- Republics
- Revolutions and Reforms
- Servitude
- Social Conflicts
- The State
- Tribunes of the People
- Tyranny
- Tyranny and License
- War
- VI. Machiavelli on His Contemporaries
- Alexander VI, Pope
- Giovanpaolo Baglioni
- Cesare Borgia, the Duke Valentino
- Ferdinand of Aragon, King of Spain
- Italian Princes
- Julius II, Pope
- Lorenzo de’ Medici (the Magnificent)
- Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino
- Louis XII, King of France
- Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany
- Girolamo Savonarola (Friar)
- Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlì
- Piero Soderini
- VII. Past and Present
- Achilles
- Agathocles of Syracuse
- Alexander the Great
- Aristotle
- Athens and Sparta
- Cicero
- Constantinople
- Cyrus, King of Persia
- Dante Alighieri
- King David (Old Testament)
- Cosimo de’ Medici
- Giovanni de’ Medici
- Florence
- France and the French
- Germany and the German Free Cities
- Italy
- Julius Caesar
- Livy (Roman Historian)
- Moses
- Plutarch
- Rome and the Roman People
- Romulus
- Turks and the Turkish Empire
- Venice
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CREDITS