Sydney Anglo is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Wales, and was Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies 1986-89. His publications includeThe Great Tournament Roll of Westminster; (Clarendon Press, 1968), and Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford-Warburg Studies 1969, new edition 1997), and The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (Yale, 2000 - see sales figures). He is a leading authority in the field of Renaissance studies.

The difficulties of dealing with a subject which is so elusive and complex have not prevented the author from giving us a truly important work, rich in ideas, and with a bibliographic framework of remarkable breadth and accuracy, which encompasses the whole European perspective ...

• Introduction: Problems Regarding Method ; I. EARLY READERSHIP ; 1. The Earliest Readers of Machiavelli: Miscellaneous and Military ; 2. Creative Plagiarism: Agostino Nifo's De regnandi peritia ; 3. Early Readers of Machiavelli: Comment and Discourse ; 4. A Hostile Cardinal: Reginald Pole and his Apologia ; 5. Osorio and Machiavelli: From Open Hostility to Covert Approbation ; 6. Machiavelli and the Index of Prohibited Books ; 7. Machiavelli's Keenest Readers: The Early Translators ; II. THE RHETORIC OF HATE ; 8. In Praise of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; 9. Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli's 'Maximes tyranniques' ; 10. In the Wake of Gentillet: Evolution of the 'Machiavel' Stereotype in France and England ; 11. More Machiavellian than Machiavel: The Jesuits and the Context of Donne's Conclave ; III. ADAPTATION, ATTACK, DEFENCE ; 12. Gentillet's Final Assault: The 'Contre-Machiavel' of 1585 ; 13. From Sublime to Ridiculous: Some Serious Readers of Machiavelli ; 14. Writers on the Art of War ; IV. MACHIAVELLI AND NON-MACHIAVELLI ; 15. Paradoxes on the Reception of Machiavelli's Military Thinking ; 16. Systematic Immorality: The Courtier's Art ; 17. Systematic Fragmentation: The Vogue of the Political Aphorism ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index

Sydney Anglo is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Wales, and was Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies 1986-89. His publications includeThe Great Tournament Roll of Westminster; (Clarendon Press, 1968), and Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford-Warburg Studies 1969, new edition 1997), and The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (Yale, 2000 - see sales figures). He is a leading authority in the field of Renaissance studies.

The difficulties of dealing with a subject which is so elusive and complex have not prevented the author from giving us a truly important work, rich in ideas, and with a bibliographic framework of remarkable breadth and accuracy, which encompasses the whole European perspective ...

• Introduction: Problems Regarding Method ; I. EARLY READERSHIP ; 1. The Earliest Readers of Machiavelli: Miscellaneous and Military ; 2. Creative Plagiarism: Agostino Nifo's De regnandi peritia ; 3. Early Readers of Machiavelli: Comment and Discourse ; 4. A Hostile Cardinal: Reginald Pole and his Apologia ; 5. Osorio and Machiavelli: From Open Hostility to Covert Approbation ; 6. Machiavelli and the Index of Prohibited Books ; 7. Machiavelli's Keenest Readers: The Early Translators ; II. THE RHETORIC OF HATE ; 8. In Praise of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; 9. Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli's 'Maximes tyranniques' ; 10. In the Wake of Gentillet: Evolution of the 'Machiavel' Stereotype in France and England ; 11. More Machiavellian than Machiavel: The Jesuits and the Context of Donne's Conclave ; III. ADAPTATION, ATTACK, DEFENCE ; 12. Gentillet's Final Assault: The 'Contre-Machiavel' of 1585 ; 13. From Sublime to Ridiculous: Some Serious Readers of Machiavelli ; 14. Writers on the Art of War ; IV. MACHIAVELLI AND NON-MACHIAVELLI ; 15. Paradoxes on the Reception of Machiavelli's Military Thinking ; 16. Systematic Immorality: The Courtier's Art ; 17. Systematic Fragmentation: The Vogue of the Political Aphorism ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index

Sydney Anglo is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Wales, and was Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies 1986-89. His publications includeThe Great Tournament Roll of Westminster; (Clarendon Press, 1968), and Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford-Warburg Studies 1969, new edition 1997), and The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe (Yale, 2000 - see sales figures). He is a leading authority in the field of Renaissance studies.

The difficulties of dealing with a subject which is so elusive and complex have not prevented the author from giving us a truly important work, rich in ideas, and with a bibliographic framework of remarkable breadth and accuracy, which encompasses the whole European perspective ...

• Introduction: Problems Regarding Method ; I. EARLY READERSHIP ; 1. The Earliest Readers of Machiavelli: Miscellaneous and Military ; 2. Creative Plagiarism: Agostino Nifo's De regnandi peritia ; 3. Early Readers of Machiavelli: Comment and Discourse ; 4. A Hostile Cardinal: Reginald Pole and his Apologia ; 5. Osorio and Machiavelli: From Open Hostility to Covert Approbation ; 6. Machiavelli and the Index of Prohibited Books ; 7. Machiavelli's Keenest Readers: The Early Translators ; II. THE RHETORIC OF HATE ; 8. In Praise of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; 9. Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli's 'Maximes tyranniques' ; 10. In the Wake of Gentillet: Evolution of the 'Machiavel' Stereotype in France and England ; 11. More Machiavellian than Machiavel: The Jesuits and the Context of Donne's Conclave ; III. ADAPTATION, ATTACK, DEFENCE ; 12. Gentillet's Final Assault: The 'Contre-Machiavel' of 1585 ; 13. From Sublime to Ridiculous: Some Serious Readers of Machiavelli ; 14. Writers on the Art of War ; IV. MACHIAVELLI AND NON-MACHIAVELLI ; 15. Paradoxes on the Reception of Machiavelli's Military Thinking ; 16. Systematic Immorality: The Courtier's Art ; 17. Systematic Fragmentation: The Vogue of the Political Aphorism ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index