Gábor Almási, Ph.D. (1972), is a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck. His interests range from Renaissance studies to pre-modern nationalism. He has published extensively on the fortunes of Machiavelli, including a monograph on Kaspar Schoppe’s Secretissima instructio (ELTE BTK, 2014).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 On the Earliest Reception of Machiavelli’s Ideas2 Machiavelli: More Than a Republican Hero3 Machiavelli and Early Modern ‘Science’4 Machiavelli the ‘Scientist’?5 The Structure and Rationale of This Book1 What Was Science in Renaissance Florence?1 The Sciences and the Arts2 Medicine versus Law in Humanist Debates3 Res et Verba4 Science in the Florentine Chancery2 Machiavelli’s Science1 From Machiavelli’s Letter to Becchi to the Discourse on Valdichiana2 The Ghiribizzi to Soderini3 Machiavelli’s Correspondence with Vettori4 History and Reason5 Machiavelli’s Historical Revolt6 The Perspective of Art7 Machiavelli’s Language and Method8 Scientia, Authorities, and Humanism3 Science and Method in Machiavelli’s Early Reception1 Guicciardini on Machiavelli’s Method2 Aristotelian Machiavelli / Machiavellian Aristotle?3 Aristotle’s Method in the Politics4 The Question of Averroism5 Machiavelli’s First Aristotelian-Averroist Enthusiast: Agostino Nifo6 Nifo’s Plagiarism of The Prince7 Girolamo Cardano Reads Machiavelli8 Cardano’s Views on Science4 Experience, Reason, and History: Machiavelli Gains a Name for Himself1 Cardinal Pole Grapples with ‘Experience’2 Machiavelli Read for Action3 Machiavelli’s Science in Le Prince: Gaspar d’Auvergne and the Cappel Family4 Jacques Gohory’s Microcosm and Macrocosm5 Science and Experience Meet historia: Machiavelli’s Latin Translations6 Historia and Francesco Patrizi7 Machiavelli and the ars historica in France5 Machiavelli Goes Underground and Triumphs1 The Tragedy of Saint Bartholomew2 Gentillet’s Anti-Machiavel (1576)3 The Rise of a New Awareness4 A Wealth of Political Literature5 Machiavelli Triumphs in Language: the Medical Metaphors6 Machiavelli Triumphs in Genre: the Hippocratic Aphorisms6 The Advancement of Politics and Science1 New Perspectives: the Global View2 Botero’s Comparative Vision of Greatness3 The Perspective of Work and Action in Botero4 The Perspective of Work and Action in Bacon5 Facts, Information, and Numbers: New Knowledge for Politics6 Bacon’s Science: Power and Happiness?7 ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

Gábor Almási, Ph.D. (1972), is a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck. His interests range from Renaissance studies to pre-modern nationalism. He has published extensively on the fortunes of Machiavelli, including a monograph on Kaspar Schoppe’s Secretissima instructio (ELTE BTK, 2014).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 On the Earliest Reception of Machiavelli’s Ideas2 Machiavelli: More Than a Republican Hero3 Machiavelli and Early Modern ‘Science’4 Machiavelli the ‘Scientist’?5 The Structure and Rationale of This Book1 What Was Science in Renaissance Florence?1 The Sciences and the Arts2 Medicine versus Law in Humanist Debates3 Res et Verba4 Science in the Florentine Chancery2 Machiavelli’s Science1 From Machiavelli’s Letter to Becchi to the Discourse on Valdichiana2 The Ghiribizzi to Soderini3 Machiavelli’s Correspondence with Vettori4 History and Reason5 Machiavelli’s Historical Revolt6 The Perspective of Art7 Machiavelli’s Language and Method8 Scientia, Authorities, and Humanism3 Science and Method in Machiavelli’s Early Reception1 Guicciardini on Machiavelli’s Method2 Aristotelian Machiavelli / Machiavellian Aristotle?3 Aristotle’s Method in the Politics4 The Question of Averroism5 Machiavelli’s First Aristotelian-Averroist Enthusiast: Agostino Nifo6 Nifo’s Plagiarism of The Prince7 Girolamo Cardano Reads Machiavelli8 Cardano’s Views on Science4 Experience, Reason, and History: Machiavelli Gains a Name for Himself1 Cardinal Pole Grapples with ‘Experience’2 Machiavelli Read for Action3 Machiavelli’s Science in Le Prince: Gaspar d’Auvergne and the Cappel Family4 Jacques Gohory’s Microcosm and Macrocosm5 Science and Experience Meet historia: Machiavelli’s Latin Translations6 Historia and Francesco Patrizi7 Machiavelli and the ars historica in France5 Machiavelli Goes Underground and Triumphs1 The Tragedy of Saint Bartholomew2 Gentillet’s Anti-Machiavel (1576)3 The Rise of a New Awareness4 A Wealth of Political Literature5 Machiavelli Triumphs in Language: the Medical Metaphors6 Machiavelli Triumphs in Genre: the Hippocratic Aphorisms6 The Advancement of Politics and Science1 New Perspectives: the Global View2 Botero’s Comparative Vision of Greatness3 The Perspective of Work and Action in Botero4 The Perspective of Work and Action in Bacon5 Facts, Information, and Numbers: New Knowledge for Politics6 Bacon’s Science: Power and Happiness?7 ConclusionsBibliographyIndex

Gábor Almási, Ph.D. (1972), is a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck. His interests range from Renaissance studies to pre-modern nationalism. He has published extensively on the fortunes of Machiavelli, including a monograph on Kaspar Schoppe’s Secretissima instructio (ELTE BTK, 2014).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 On the Earliest Reception of Machiavelli’s Ideas2 Machiavelli: More Than a Republican Hero3 Machiavelli and Early Modern ‘Science’4 Machiavelli the ‘Scientist’?5 The Structure and Rationale of This Book1 What Was Science in Renaissance Florence?1 The Sciences and the Arts2 Medicine versus Law in Humanist Debates3 Res et Verba4 Science in the Florentine Chancery2 Machiavelli’s Science1 From Machiavelli’s Letter to Becchi to the Discourse on Valdichiana2 The Ghiribizzi to Soderini3 Machiavelli’s Correspondence with Vettori4 History and Reason5 Machiavelli’s Historical Revolt6 The Perspective of Art7 Machiavelli’s Language and Method8 Scientia, Authorities, and Humanism3 Science and Method in Machiavelli’s Early Reception1 Guicciardini on Machiavelli’s Method2 Aristotelian Machiavelli / Machiavellian Aristotle?3 Aristotle’s Method in the Politics4 The Question of Averroism5 Machiavelli’s First Aristotelian-Averroist Enthusiast: Agostino Nifo6 Nifo’s Plagiarism of The Prince7 Girolamo Cardano Reads Machiavelli8 Cardano’s Views on Science4 Experience, Reason, and History: Machiavelli Gains a Name for Himself1 Cardinal Pole Grapples with ‘Experience’2 Machiavelli Read for Action3 Machiavelli’s Science in Le Prince: Gaspar d’Auvergne and the Cappel Family4 Jacques Gohory’s Microcosm and Macrocosm5 Science and Experience Meet historia: Machiavelli’s Latin Translations6 Historia and Francesco Patrizi7 Machiavelli and the ars historica in France5 Machiavelli Goes Underground and Triumphs1 The Tragedy of Saint Bartholomew2 Gentillet’s Anti-Machiavel (1576)3 The Rise of a New Awareness4 A Wealth of Political Literature5 Machiavelli Triumphs in Language: the Medical Metaphors6 Machiavelli Triumphs in Genre: the Hippocratic Aphorisms6 The Advancement of Politics and Science1 New Perspectives: the Global View2 Botero’s Comparative Vision of Greatness3 The Perspective of Work and Action in Botero4 The Perspective of Work and Action in Bacon5 Facts, Information, and Numbers: New Knowledge for Politics6 Bacon’s Science: Power and Happiness?7 ConclusionsBibliographyIndex