ELECTRONIC DATABASES
Online Catasto of 1427. Version 1.3. Edited by David Herlihy, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, R. Burr Litchfield, and Anthony Molho. [Machine-readable data file based on David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Domains in the Province of Tuscany, 1427–1480.] Florentine Renaissance Resources/STG: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2002.
Online Tratte of Office Holders, 1282–1532. Edited by David Herlihy, R. Burr Litchfield, Anthony Molho, and Roberto Barducci.
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
The Art of War, trans. Ellis Farneworth. Cambridge, 1965.
Chief Works and Others, 3 vols., trans. Felix H. Gilbert. Durham, 1965.
Clizia, in Chief Works, II.
Discorsi sopra la Prima Deca di Tito Livio, Florence, 1886 and 1900.
Discourse on Remodeling the Government of Florence, in Chief Works, I.
The Discourses, trans. Bernard Crick, ed., and Leslie Walker. London, 1970.
First Decennale, in Chief Works, III.
Florentine Histories, trans. Laura F. Banfield and Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. Princeton, 1988.
Il Principe. Milan, 1950.
La Mandragola, in Chief Works, II.
Legazioni, Commissarie, Scritti di Governo, 4 vols. Rome, 2006.
——— et al. Lettere Familiari di Niccolò Machiavelli, ed., Edoardo Alvise. Florence, 1893.
——— et al. Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence, trans. and ed. James B. Atkinson and David Sices. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, 1996.
Opere Minori. Florence, 1852.
The Prince, trans. Daniel Donno. New York, 1966.
Tercets on Ambition, in Chief Works, II.
Tercets on Fortune, in Chief Works, II.
Tercets on Ingratitude or Envy, in Chief Works, II.
PRIMARY
Alberti, Leon Battista. The Family in Renaissance Florence, trans. Renée Neu Watkins. Columbia, 1969.
———. I Libri della Famiglia. Florence, 1910.
Alighieri, Dante. The De Monarchia of Dante Alighieri, trans. Aurelia Henry. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1904.
———. Inferno, trans. John D. Sinclair. New York, 1939.
———. Paradiso, trans. John D. Sinclair. New York, 1939.
———. Purgatorio, trans. John D. Sinclair. New York, 1939.
Aquinas, Thomas. Selected Political Writings, trans. J. G. Dawson. Oxford, 1948.
Aristotle. Ethics, trans. J. A. K. Thomson. London, 1955.
———. The Politics, trans. T. A. Sinclair. London, 1962.
Saint Augustine. The City of God, trans. Marcus Dodds. New York, 1950.
———. Confessions, trans. J. G. Pilkington. New York, 1943.
Bacon, Francis. Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum. New York, 1899.
Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, trans. P. G. Walsh. New York, 2000.
Bracciolini, Poggio. “On Avarice,” trans. Benjamin G. Kohl and Elizabeth B. Welles, in The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society, ed. Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt. Philadelphia, 1978.
———. “On Nobility,” in Humanism and Liberty: Writings on Freedom from Fifteenth-Century Florence, trans. and ed. Renée Neu Watkins. Columbia, 1978.
———. “The Ruins of Rome,” in The Portable Renaissance Reader, ed. James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin. Middlesex, 1953.
Bruni, Leonardo. History of the Florentine People, trans. James Hankins. Cambridge, 2001.
———. Panegyric to the City of Florence, trans. Benjamin G. Kohl, in The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society, ed. Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt. Philadelphia, 1978.
Buchard, Johann. At the Court of Borgia: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI, trans. Geoffrey Parker. London, 1963.
———. Pope Alexander and His Court. New York, 1921.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. On the Good Life, trans. Michael Grant. London, 1971.
Commines, Philip de. The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton, trans. Andrew R. Scoble. London, 1855–56.
Compagni, Dino. Dino Compagni’s Chronicle of Florence, trans. Daniel E. Bornstein. Philadelphia, 1986.
Condivi, Ascanio. The Life of Michelangelo, trans. Alice Sedgwick Wohl, ed. Hellmut Wohl. Baton Rouge, 1976.
Dati, Gregorio, and Buonacorso Pitti. Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence; the Diaries of Buonacorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati, trans. Julia Martines, ed. Gene Brucker. New York, 1967.
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———. Education of a Christian Prince. Cambridge, 2006.
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———. Leonardo da Vinci’s Advice to Artists, ed. Emery Kelen. Philadelphia, 1974.
Livy. Early History of Rome, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt. London, 1960.
———. Rome and Italy, trans. Betty Radice. Penguin, London, 1982.
———. The War with Hannibal, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt. Penguin, London, 1965.
Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding. London, 1879.
———. Two Treatises on Government. New York, 1947.
Machiavelli, Bernardo. Libro di Ricordi. Florence, 1954.
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———. Liberty and Tyranny in the Government of Men, trans. C. M. Flumiani. Albuquerque 1976.
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Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 2 vols. trans. Gaston du C. de Vere. New York, 1927.
SECONDARY
Anglo, Sydney. Machiavelli: A Dissection. New York, 1969.
———. Machiavelli: The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance. Oxford, 2005.
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Atkinson, Catherine. Debts, Dowries, Donkeys: The Diary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Father, Messer Bernardo, in Quattrocento Florence. Frankfurt am Main, 2002.
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Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, 1967.
Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty. Princeton, 1955.
Barthas, Jérémie. “Machiavelli in Political Thought from the Age of Revolutions to the Present,” in The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, ed. John M. Najemy. Cambridge, 2010.
Bernard, John. Why Machiavelli Matters: A Guide to Citizenship in a Democracy. Westport, 2009.
Black, Robert. “Machiavelli in the Chancery,” in The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, ed. John M. Najemy. Cambridge, 2010.
Blitz, Mark. “Virtue, Modern and Ancient,” in Educating the Prince, eds., Mark Blitz and William Kristol. Lanham, 2000.
Blitz, Mark, and William Kristol, eds. Educating the Prince: Essays in Honor of Harvey Mansfield. Lanham, 2000.
Bluhm, William T. “Immanent Good: Aristotle’s Quest for the Best Regime,” in Essays in the History of Political Thought, ed. Isaac Kramnick. Englewood Cliffs, 1969.
Bonadeo, Alfredo. “The Role of the ‘Grandi’ in the Political World of Machiavelli.” Studies in the Renaissance 16 (1969): 9–30.
Breisach, Ernst. Caterina Sforza: A Renaissance Virago. Chicago, 1967.
Brown, Alison. Bartolomeo Scala, 1430–1497: Chancellor of Florence: The Humanist as Bureaucrat. Princeton, 1979.
———. “Lorenzo and Guicciardini,” in Lorenzo the Magnificent: Culture and Politics, eds. Michael Mallet and Nicholas Mann. London, 1996, 281–96.
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Brown, David Alan. Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius. New Haven, 1998.
Brucker, Gene. The Civic World of Renaissance Florence. Princeton, 1977.
———. Florence: The Golden Age, 1138–1737. Berkeley, 1998.
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Burckhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 2 vols., trans. S. G. C. Middlemore. New York, 1958.
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Cabrini, Anna Maria. “Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories,” in The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, ed. John M. Najemy. Cambridge, 2010.
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Chabod, Federico. Machiavelli and the Renaissance, trans. David Moore. London, 1958.
Chamberlin, E. R. Everyday Life in Renaissance Times. London, 1966.
———. The World of the Italian Renaissance. London, 1982.
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———. The Pope, His Banker, and Venice. Cambridge, 1980.
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———. Private Wealth in Renaissance Florence: A Study of Four Families. Princeton, 1968.
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