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MACCHIAVELLI, Niccolo (Machiavel, Nicolas) [Translated by Henry Neville]. THE WORKS OF THE FAMOUS NICOLAS MACHIAVEL, CITIZEN AND SECRETARY OF FLORENCE. Written in Italian and from thence Newly and Faithfully translated into English.
London: Printted for J. (John) S. (Starkey) at the Miter in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar, 1675. Hardcover Very Good+
First Edition in English of Machiavelli's entire works. Very Good+ bound in early calf, rebacked to style preserving the original spine. Black leather spine label, gilt lettering. Covers with mild loss to corners but binding is intact, tight. Light pencil name, J. Wheeler on ffep. Scattered mild soil. Folio [24], 189 (sic) (i. e. 179), [5], 199-262, 265-267. [5], 267 (sic)-314, 31`7-431, [6], 434-529, [17] pp. Machiavelli's text complete, lacking only publisher's ads, despite the discontinuous pagination. Four parts in one volume each with separate dated title page: "The History of Florence", "The Prince", The Discourses of Nicholas Machiavel, Upon the First Decade of Titus Livius" and "the Art of War". While these are the main headings, the other writings of Machiavelli are included: "The Original of the Guelf and Ghibilin Factions", "The Murther of Vitelli, &c. by Duke Valentino", "The State of France", "The State of Germany" and "The Marriage of Belphegor". The volume ends with "The Publisher to the Reader Concerning the Following Letter" followed by " Nicholas Machiavel's Letter to Zanobius Buondelmontius in Vindication of Himself and His Writings".
Some of the works in this volume were previously translated into English (The History of Florence, The Prince, The Art of War and The Discourses). This is the second translation of 'The Prince', the first being in 1640. The other works are translated into English for the first time by Neville. In all Neville's work is regarded as "excellent" (Dictionary of National Biography). "The Prince is far more than a book of directions to any one of the many Italian princelings. Machiavelli had profited from journeys to France and Germany [the first English translations of "The State of France" and "The State of Germany" in this volume] to make the most able analyses of a national government, and he now wrote for the guidance of the ruler by whom alone Italy, desperately divided, could be restored to political health. Hitherto political speculation had tended to be rhetorical exercise based on the implicit assumption of Church or Empire. Machiavelli founded the science of modern politics on the study of mankind--it should be remembered that a parallel work to 'The Prince' was his historical essay on the first ten books of Livy" (Printing and the Mind of Man 63).
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