Niccolò Machiavelli/Bibliography

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Biographical

• Burd, L. A., "Florence (II): Machiavelli" in Cambridge Modern History (1902), vol. I, ch. vi. pp 190-218 online Google edition
• de Grazia, Sebastian. Machiavelli in Hell (1989) intellectual biography
• Hale, J. R. Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy (1961) online edition
• Hulliung, Mark. Citizen Machiavelli (1983)
• Ridolfi, Roberto. The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli (1963), a standard scholarly biography
• Schevill, Ferdinand. Six Historians (1956), pp. 61-91
• Skinner, Quentin. Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction (2000) online edition
• Villari, Pasquale. The Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli (2 vol 1892), good older biography; online Google edition vol 1; online Google edition vol 2
• Viroli, Maurizio. Niccolo's Smile : A Biography of Machiavelli (2000) excerpt and text search
• Viroli, Maurizio. Machiavelli (1998) online edition

Political thought

• Arciniegas, Germán. "Savonarola, Machiavelli, and Guido Antonio Vespucci: Totalitarian and Democrat 500 Years Ago," Political Science Quarterly, (1954) 69:184-201, argues that modern totalitarianism is a blending of Machiavelli's theories and Savonarola's techniques of rabble rousing. in JSTOR
• Ball, Terence. "The Picaresque Prince: Reflections on Machiavelli and Moral Change," Political Theory, Vol. 12, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 521-536 in jstor
• Baron, Hans. The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (2nd edn., 1966).
• Baron, Hans. In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism (2 vols. 1988).
• Baron Hans, "Machiavelli: The Republican Citizen and the Author of The Prince" in The English Historical Review 76 (1961), pp. 217-53. in JSTOR
• Bock, Gisela; Skinner, Quentin; and Viroli, Maurizio, ed. Machiavelli and Republicanism. (1990). 316 pp. excerpt and text search
• Butterfield, Herbert. The Statecraft of Machiavelli (1940).
• Chabod, FedericoMachiavelli & the Renaissance (1958) online edition
• Colish, Marcia L. "Republicanism, Religion, and Machiavelli's Savonarolan Moment," Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 597-616 in JSTOR
• Colish, Marcia L. "Machiavelli's Art of War: A Reconsideration," Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Winter, 1998), pp. 1151-1168 in JSTOR
• Fischer, Markus. "Machiavelli's Political Psychology," The Review of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 789-829 in JSTOR
• Gilbert, Felix. Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2nd ed. 1984)
• Gilbert, Felix. "Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War," in Edward Mead Earle, ed. The Makers of Modern Strategy (1944)
• Jensen, De Lamar, ed. Machiavelli: Cynic, Patriot, or Political Scientist? (1960) essays by scholars online edition
• Lukes, Timothy J. "Lionizing Machiavelli," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 95, No. 3 (Sep., 2001), pp. 561-575 in JSTOR
• Lukes, Timothy J. "Martialing Machiavelli: Reassessing the Military Reflections," The Journal of Politics, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Nov., 2004), pp. 1089-1108 in JSTOR
• McCormick, John P. "Machiavelli against Republicanism: On the Cambridge School's 'Guicciardinian Moments,'" Political Theory, Vol. 31, No. 5 (Oct., 2003), pp. 615-643 in JSTOR
• Mansfield, Harvey C. Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy (2001) excerpt and text search
• Mansfield, Harvey C. Machiavelli's Virtue (1996), 371pp
• Mansfield, Harvey C. "Machiavelli's Political Science," The American Political Science Review, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 293-305 in JSTOR
• Mindle, Grant B. "Machiavelli's Realism," The Review of Politics, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Apr., 1985), pp. 212-230 in JSTOR
• Najemy, John M. "Baron's Machiavelli and Renaissance Republicanism." American Historical Review 1996 101(1): 119-129. ISSN 0002-8762 Fulltext in Jstor.
• Nederman, Cary J. "Amazing Grace: Fortune, God, and Free Will in Machiavelli's Thought," Journal of the History of Ideas 60: 617-638. in JSTOR
• Parel, A. J. "The Question of Machiavelli's Modernity," The Review of Politics, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Spring, 1991), pp. 320-339 in JSTOR
• Pellerin, Daniel. "Machiavelli's Best Fiend." History of Political Thought 2006 27(3): 423-453. Issn: 0143-781x on Pope Alexander VI
• Pocock, J.G.A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (1975; new ed. 2003), a highly influential study of Discourses and its vast influence; excerpt and text search; also online 1975 edition
• Pocock, J. G. A. "The Machiavellian Moment Revisited: a Study in History and Ideology.: Journal of Modern History 1981 53(1): 49-72. Fulltext: in Jstor.
• Scott, John T. and Vickie B. Sullivan, "Patricide and the Plot of the Prince: Cesare Borgia and Machiavelli's Italy." American Political Science Review 1994 88(4): 887-900. Issn: 0003-0554 in Jstor
• Struever, Nancy S. The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism (1970)
• Wight, Martin. Four Seminal Thinkers in International Theory: Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, and Mazzini (2005), ch. 1 online edition

Editions

• Bondanella, Peter, and Mark Musa, eds. The Portable Machiavelli (1979)
• Penman, Bruce. The Prince and Other Political Writings, (1981)
• Selected Political Writings edited by David Wootton (1994) excerpt and text search
• The Prince ed. by Peter Bondanella (1998) 101pp online edition
• The Prince ed. by Rufus Goodwin and Benjamin Martinez (2003) excerpt and text search
• The Prince (2007) excerpt and text search
• Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince, (1908 edition tr by W. K. Marriott) Gutenberg edition
• The Discourses, online 1772 edition
• The Discourses, tr. with introduction and notes by L. J. Walker (2 vol 1950).
• The Discourses, edited with an introduction by Bernard Crick (1970).
• The Seven Books on the Art of War online 1772 edition
• The Art of War ed. by Christopher Lynch (2003)
• Reform of Florence online 1772 edition
• The Private Correspondence of Nicolo Machiavelli, ed. by Orestes Ferrara; (1929) online edition
• Gilbert, Allan H. ed. Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, (3 vol. 1965).