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action, indeed, but he was no worshipper of mystical and mythi-
cal abstractions.
Bibliographical Note
The material on Machiavelli is voluminous. Students would be
well advised to begin their study by reading The Prince, of which
a readily available edition has recently been published by the Ox-
ford University Press. The great English edition is, however, that
of L. F. Burd. Apart from his scholarly introduction, it contains
a prefatory introduction by Lord Acton--one of the finest essays
existing on the subject. That essay may also be found in Acton
History of Freedom. There is a brief, but stimulating, essay on
Machiavelli in H. J. Laski The Dangers of Obedience. A great
work that discusses Machiavelli's life and setting is P. Villari The
Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli ( 2 volumes). While long
and scholarly, it is not difficult reading-is, indeed, extremely inter-
esting. A more popular account, which conveys admirably the
feeling of the Renaissance, is given by R. Roeder in his The Man
of the Renaissance. The connection of Machiavelli with Luther
and the Reformation is discussed in Figgis From Gerson to Grotius,
Lecture III and in R. H. Murray The Political Consequences of
the Reformation, Chapter I, though the two viewpoints are inter-
estingly different. In Part IV of J. W. Allen A History of Poli-
tical Thought in the Sixteenth Century there is a good and thorough
chapter on Machiavelli, followed by one on Guicciardini, which it
would pay the student to read. An English edition of Machia-
velli's works, containing the Discourses and the History of Florence
is that of C. E. Detmold. The latter work is, however, more readily
available in the Everyman series. A brief selection from Machia-
velli's correspondence, illuminating as to his character, has been
done by D. Ferrara.

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