Machiavelli ; The chief works and others / translated by Allan Gilbert.

Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.

Imprint:Durham, NC : Duke University, 1965.

Descriptionv. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:"...an authorized facsimile made from the master copy of the original book."

Note:Published 2004 by UMI Books on Demand from: ProQuest.

Note:Vol.1. -- A pastoral: the ideal ruler. - A discourse on remodeling the government of Florence. - dAdvice to Raffaello Girolami when he wwent as ambassador to the emperor. - The legations (parts of dispatches dealing with Cesare Borgia) - On the method of dealing with the rebellious peoples of the Valdichiana (selection) - A description of the method used by Duke Valentino in killing Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, and others (at Sinigaglia) - An exhortation to penitence. - Discourses on the first decade of Titus Livius (books 1-3)

Note:Vol.2. -- The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca. - The art of war. - The account of a visit made to fortify Florence; a letter to the ambassador of the Republic in Rome. - Tercets on ambition. - Tercets on ingratitude or envy. - The [golden] ass. - Machiavelli's comedies: Mandragola; Clizia. - Articles for a pleasure company. - Belfagor, the devil who married. - Carnival songs (five songs) - Familiar letters (all given are complete) - A sonnet to Messer Bernardo his father. - Two sonnets to Giuliano, son of Lorenzo de'Medici. - A third sonnet to Giuliano. - Serenade.

Note:Vol.3. -- The history of Florence. - The natures of Florentine men. - Words to be spoken on the law for appropriating money. - First decennale, ten yaers of Florentine history, 1494-1504. - Second decennale, five years of Florentine history, 1504-1505. - Epigram, Piero Soderini. - Epigram, Argus, on the release of Francis I.

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