J. Patrick Coby is Professor of Government at Smith College. He is the author of Socrates and the Sophistic Enlightenment: A Commentary on Plato's Protagoras and of numerous writings in political theory, including articles on Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx.

Coby's book provides a much-needed textual analysis of Machiavelli's Roman sources and displays a wide and masterful knowledge of the formidable body of scholarly literature. . . . The book undoubtedly represents the most thoroughgoing investigation of Machiavelli's interpretation of the Roman precedent.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading the DiscoursesPart 2 Part One: RomeChapter 3 Why Rome?Chapter 4 Rome's "Inside" Modes and OrdersChapter 5 Rome's HumorsChapter 6 Rome's "Outside" Modes and OrdersChapter 7 Rome's CaptainsPart 8 Part Two: MachiavelliChapter 9 Machiavelli's Modes and OrdersChapter 10 Machiavelli's Middle WaysChapter 11 What Machiavelli's WantsChapter 12 NotesChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index

J. Patrick Coby is Professor of Government at Smith College. He is the author of Socrates and the Sophistic Enlightenment: A Commentary on Plato's Protagoras and of numerous writings in political theory, including articles on Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx.

Coby's book provides a much-needed textual analysis of Machiavelli's Roman sources and displays a wide and masterful knowledge of the formidable body of scholarly literature. . . . The book undoubtedly represents the most thoroughgoing investigation of Machiavelli's interpretation of the Roman precedent.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading the DiscoursesPart 2 Part One: RomeChapter 3 Why Rome?Chapter 4 Rome's "Inside" Modes and OrdersChapter 5 Rome's HumorsChapter 6 Rome's "Outside" Modes and OrdersChapter 7 Rome's CaptainsPart 8 Part Two: MachiavelliChapter 9 Machiavelli's Modes and OrdersChapter 10 Machiavelli's Middle WaysChapter 11 What Machiavelli's WantsChapter 12 NotesChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index

J. Patrick Coby is Professor of Government at Smith College. He is the author of Socrates and the Sophistic Enlightenment: A Commentary on Plato's Protagoras and of numerous writings in political theory, including articles on Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, and Marx.

Coby's book provides a much-needed textual analysis of Machiavelli's Roman sources and displays a wide and masterful knowledge of the formidable body of scholarly literature. . . . The book undoubtedly represents the most thoroughgoing investigation of Machiavelli's interpretation of the Roman precedent.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Reading the DiscoursesPart 2 Part One: RomeChapter 3 Why Rome?Chapter 4 Rome's "Inside" Modes and OrdersChapter 5 Rome's HumorsChapter 6 Rome's "Outside" Modes and OrdersChapter 7 Rome's CaptainsPart 8 Part Two: MachiavelliChapter 9 Machiavelli's Modes and OrdersChapter 10 Machiavelli's Middle WaysChapter 11 What Machiavelli's WantsChapter 12 NotesChapter 13 BibliographyChapter 14 Index