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Further Reading The standard English edition is Allan Gilbert (editor), Machiavelli: the Chief Works and Others (Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1965). The standard biography is R. Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli, translated by Colin Grayson (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963). See also Sebastian de Grazia, Machiavelli in Hell (Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989, and London, Picador, 1992). The best short work on Machiavelli's life and work is Quentin Skinner, Machiavelli (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981 ). There are several translations of The Prince available, including those of George Bull (London, Penguin, 1981) and Quentin Skinner and Russell Price (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988); and one of The Discourses, Bernard Crick (editor) (London, Penguin, 1970). Other excellent works are: J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975), and Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli (editors), Machiavelli and Republicanism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990). Books applying Machiavelli to modern politics include Alistair McAlpine, The Servant: A New Machiavelli (London, Faber & Faber, 1992), and Edward Pearce, Machiavelli's Children (London, Victor Gollancz, 1993). The quotations by Isaiah Berlin are from "The Originality of Machiavelli", pp. 25-79 in his Against the Current, H. Hardy (editor) (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981 ). Other passages quoted or mentioned: Donald Kagan, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (New York, Doubleday, 1995); Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995); and Adrian Oldfield's excellent Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World (London, Routledge, 1990). Oscar Zarate thanks Hazel Hirshorn and Maria Reidy at the Italian Culture Institute for picture research. Additional drawings on pages 83-85 by Woodrow Phoenix. Patrick Curry is a freelance writer and historian living in London. His interests include the history of astrology, literary criticism, politics and ecology. Oscar Zarate has illustrated six other Introducing titles: Freud, Stephen Hawking, Quantum Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, Melanie Klein and Mind & Brain, as well as Lenin for Beginners and Mafia for Beginners. He has also produced many acclaimed graphic novels, including A Small Killing, which won the Will Eisner Prize for the best graphic novel of 1994, and has edited It's Dark in London, a collection of graphic stories, published in 1996. Lettering by Woodrow Phoenix. Typesetting by Wayzgoose. 174
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Index Alighieri , Dante 21 America 1 34-5 American Constitution 100-1 Antimachiavell 137 arms 62 Art of War, The 11 3-15 Bacon, Francis 5 Barings Bank 95 Bellah, Robert 160 Bonaparte, Napoleon 137 Borgia Cesare 33-6 , 38-9 , 57 cruelty 71 Lucretia 34 Botticelli, Sandro 9 burns artworks 28 Brunelleschi, Filippo 8 Caesar, Julius 93 capitalism 98 Chamberlain , Neville 54 Christianity 106-7 civic republicanism 138, 140-8 virtue 151 civil society 141-3 Clinton, Bill 76, 129 Columbus, Christopher 12 communism after 146 Gramsci 155 see also Marx, Karl Communitarianism 160-4 communities vs. monism 166-7 Coolidge, Calvin 143 corruption 1 09 Corsini , Marietta 33 Discourses, The 86-92 published 123 discussion group 86-7 End of History, The 150 Enlightenment , the 138-9 equality 102-3 Etzioni, Amitai 160 fascism 153 Ferdinand of Aragon 76 Ficino, Marsilio 13 Florence civil war 21 falls 122 French invasion 26 government 23 history 20 Renaissance 6-13 taken by Spain 42-3 fortune, concept of 59-62, 117 Franco , Francisco 125 Frederick the Great 137 free market 142, 144-7, 150 Fukuyama, Francis 150 Gaulle, Charles de 129 Ghibellines 20-2 Gorbachev, Mikhail 129 Gramsci, Antonio 154-9 Gueits 20-2 Guicciardini , Francesco 101 Hegel, G.W.F. 138 History of Florence 20, 23, 116, 123 Hobbes, Thomas 148 humanism 14-16 hypocrisy 72 immigration 109 imperialism 1 08 Italy defending 78-9 divided 18 resurgence 80 see also Florence; Pisa Kagan, Donald 131 Kissinger, Henry 4 laws 62 Leach , Christopher 98 leadership see Prince, The left vs. right 152-5 Leviathan (Hobbes) 148 liberal democracy 148, 150 liberty 89-91 loss of 171 positive vs. negative 165 Locke, John 149 loyalty 75

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Further Reading The standard English edition is Allan Gilbert (editor), Machiavelli: the Chief Works and Others (Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1965). The standard biography is R. Ridolfi, The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli, translated by Colin Grayson (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963). See also Sebastian de Grazia, Machiavelli in Hell (Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989, and London, Picador, 1992). The best short work on Machiavelli's life and work is Quentin Skinner, Machiavelli (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981 ). There are several translations of The Prince available, including those of George Bull (London, Penguin, 1981) and Quentin Skinner and Russell Price (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988); and one of The Discourses, Bernard Crick (editor) (London, Penguin, 1970). Other excellent works are: J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1975), and Gisela Bock, Quentin Skinner and Maurizio Viroli (editors), Machiavelli and Republicanism (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990). Books applying Machiavelli to modern politics include Alistair McAlpine, The Servant: A New Machiavelli (London, Faber & Faber, 1992), and Edward Pearce, Machiavelli's Children (London, Victor Gollancz, 1993). The quotations by Isaiah Berlin are from "The Originality of Machiavelli", pp. 25-79 in his Against the Current, H. Hardy (editor) (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981 ). Other passages quoted or mentioned: Donald Kagan, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace (New York, Doubleday, 1995); Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995); and Adrian Oldfield's excellent Citizenship and Community: Civic Republicanism and the Modern World (London, Routledge, 1990).

Oscar Zarate thanks Hazel Hirshorn and Maria Reidy at the Italian Culture Institute for picture research. Additional drawings on pages 83-85 by Woodrow Phoenix. Patrick Curry is a freelance writer and historian living in London. His interests include the history of astrology, literary criticism, politics and ecology.

Oscar Zarate has illustrated six other Introducing titles: Freud, Stephen Hawking, Quantum Theory, Evolutionary Psychology, Melanie Klein and Mind & Brain, as well as Lenin for Beginners and Mafia for Beginners. He has also produced many acclaimed graphic novels, including A Small Killing, which won the Will Eisner Prize for the best graphic novel of 1994, and has edited It's Dark in London, a collection of graphic stories, published in 1996.

Lettering by Woodrow Phoenix. Typesetting by Wayzgoose. 174

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