Machiavelli

by Miles J. Unger

  making him a full-fledged citizen: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 365.

  “double tertian fever”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 459.

  “Honored Niccolò, I shall begin”: Ibid., 468.

  “time is endlessly repeating”: Ibid., 460.

  “I have to conclude that this gang here”: Ibid., 468.

  “Since a prince is required to play the beast”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, XVIII, 156.

  “I vent my feelings against these princes”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 465.

  “As to public affairs”: Ibid., 469.

  “It would be, as I have said”: Ibid., 477.

  “[T]here will be war in Italy, and soon”: Ibid., 479.

  “Those dreading war should be shown”: Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli, II, 500–1.

  “Machiavelli has left with the orders”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 553.

  “[M]y head is so full of ramparts”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 487–88.

  “He came to reorganize the militia”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 376.

  “I am glad that Machiavelli gave the orders”: Ibid.

  “How great the difference is”: Ibid.

  “daily stages”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 325.

  “[T]he Spaniards could have beaten us”: Ibid., 233.

  “made in Rome, but not observed in Lombardy”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 523.

  “living in Rome”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 233.

  “[O]bserving the behavior of France and the Venetians”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 523.

  “We began . . . to divide the army at Parma”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 240.

  “As for the lansquenets”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 526.

  “I do not believe there were ever more troubling matters”: Ibid., 525.

  “I have taken on my own initiative”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 241.

  “I love Messer Francesco Guicciardini”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 525.

  “whom I remarked to be higher than the rest”: Cellini, Vita, I, 66.

  “the dreadful news from Rome”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 247.

  “Wherever you turn your eyes”: Machiavelli, “On Ambition,” in Chief Works, II, 738.

  “he heard him sigh many times”: Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli, 329.

  “[The common people] hated him”: Viroli, Niccolò’s Smile, 257.

  “My very dear Francesco”: Machiavelli et al., Lettere Familiari, 530.

  “We are the saintly and the blessed”: Viroli, Niccolò’s Smile, 3.

  “We are the damned of Hell”: Ibid.

  XIV. FINGER OF SATAN

  “if one wishes to put this state on a proper footing”: Najemy, A History of Florence, 462.

  “to bite and tear him”: Anglo, Machiavelli: The First Century, 165.

  “that those who teach the use of herbs”: Ibid., 166.

  “Although owing to the envy inherent in man’s nature”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 97.

  “we are much beholden to Machiavel”: Bacon, Advancement of Learning, II, 222.

  “It is a sound maxim”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 132.

  “I have not adorned this work”: Machiavelli, Il Principe, “Dedication,” 84.

  “wholly destitute of religion and a contemner thereof”: Anglo, Machiavelli: The First Century, 169.

  “This poison is spread”: Ibid., 17.

  “enemy of the human race”: Ibid.

  “[M]y intent and purpose”: Ibid., 285.

  “the odious maxims”: Skinner et al., Great Political Thinkers, 9.

  “All these discoveries and complaints”: Pangle, The Spirit of Modern Republicanism, 32.

  “subtle policie, cunning roguerie”: Anglo, Machiavelli: The First Century, 3.

  “ruin[ing] anyone who might someday ruin you”: Ibid., 165.

  “I count religion but a childish toy”: Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, “Prologue.”

  “I’ll slay more gazers than a basilisk”: Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, III, ii.

  “O great and wonderful happiness of man!”: Pico, On the Dignity of Man, 5, Portable Renaissance Reader, p. 478–79.

  “What a piece of work is a man!”: Shakespeare, Hamlet, II, ii.

  “the dispositions of men are naturally such”: Rauch, The Political Animal, 28.

  “all human affairs are ever in a state of flux”: Machiavelli, Discourses, I, 123.

  “Fitted out appropriately”: Machiavelli et al., Machiavelli and His Friends, 264.

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  SECONDARY

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