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  1. For example: "Niccolo Machiavelli - Italian statesman and writer". https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Machiavelli.  and "Niccolò Machiavelli". https://www.iep.utm.edu/machiave/. 
  2. For example: Smith, Gregory B. (2008). Between Eternities: On the Tradition of Political Philosophy, Past, Present, and Future. Lexington Books. p. 65. ISBN 9780739120774. https://books.google.com/books?id=1w5sCPpcDPMC&pg=PA65. , Whelan, Frederick G. (2004). Hume and Machiavelli: Political Realism and Liberal Thought. Lexington Books. p. 29. ISBN 9780739106310. https://books.google.com/books?id=2d4qgsSLZQgC&pg=PA29. , Strauss (15 October 1988). What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies. University of Chicago Press. p. 41. ISBN 9780226777139. https://books.google.com/books?id=W5m6lCFR53YC. 
  3. Najemy, John M. (15 January 2019). Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691656649. https://books.google.com/books?id=R1mYDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1. 
  4. "Niccolo Machiavelli". https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Machiavelli. 
  5. Cassirer, Ernst (1946). The Myth of the State. Yale University Press. pp. 141–145. ISBN 9780300000368. https://archive.org/details/mythofstate0000cass. "ernst cassirer the myth of the state." 
  6. For example, The Prince chap. 15, and The Discourses Book I, chapter 9
  7. Strauss, Leo; Cropsey, Joseph (15 June 2012). History of Political Philosophy. University of Chicago Press. p. 297. ISBN 9780226924717. https://books.google.com/books?id=E7mScxst9UoC&q=history%20of%20political%20philosophy&pg=PT315. 
  8. Mansfield, Harvey C. (25 February 1998). Machiavelli's Virtue. University of Chicago Press. p. 178. ISBN 9780226503721. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4EULB2IM50C&q=machiavelli's%20virtue&pg=PA178. 
  9. Giorgini, Giovanni (2013). "Five Hundred Years of Italian Scholarship on Machiavelli's Prince". Review of Politics 75 (4): 625–40. doi:10.1017/S0034670513000624.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1017%2FS0034670513000624
  10. Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov, "Introduction to the Discourses". In their translation of the Discourses on Livy
  11. (de Grazia 1989)
  12.  Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Niccolò Machiavelli". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 
  13. Guarini (1999:21)
  14. Maurizio Viroli, Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli (2000), ch 1
  15. Ridolfi, Roberto (17 June 2013) (in en). The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli. Routledge. pp. 28. ISBN 9781135026615. https://books.google.com/books?id=QMasak4LLcQC&pg=PT28. 
  16. Machiavelli 1981, p. 136, notes.
  17. "Niccolo Machiavelli | Biography, Books, Philosophy, & Facts" (in en). https://www.britannica.com/biography/Niccolo-Machiavelli. 
  18. Viroli, Maurizio (9 January 2002). Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli. Macmillan. pp. 81–86. ISBN 9780374528003. https://books.google.com/books?id=9hIPlryeSTQC&pg=PA105. 
  19. This point is made especially in The Prince, Chap XII
  20. Viroli, Maurizio (9 January 2002). Niccolo's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli. Macmillan. p. 105. ISBN 9780374528003. https://books.google.com/books?id=9hIPlryeSTQC&pg=PA105. 
  21. Many historians have argued that this was due to Piero Soderini's unwillingness to compromise with the Medici, who were holding Prato under siege.
  22. Machiavelli 1981, p. 3, intro.
  23. Skinner, Quentin (12 October 2000). Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford. p. 36. ISBN 9780191540349. https://books.google.com/books?id=2kiYz6d278IC&q=quentin%20skinner%20machiavelli&pg=PT36. 
  24. Niccolò Machiavelli (1996), Machiavelli and his friends: Their personal correspondence, Northern Illinois University Press, translated and edited by James B. Atkinson and David Sices.
  25. Joshua Kaplan, "Political Theory: The Classic Texts and their Continuing Relevance," The Modern Scholar (14 lectures in the series; lecture #7 / disc 4), 2005.
  26. "Even such men as Malatesta and Machiavelli, after spending their lives in estrangement from the Church, sought on their death-beds her assistance and consolations. Both made good confessions and received the Holy Viaticum." – Ludwig von Pastor, History of the Popes, Vol. 5, p. 137. https://archive.org/stream/historyofthepope05pastuoft#page/136/mode/2up
  27. Machiavelli, Niccolò (1532). The Prince. Italy. pp. 120–21. 
  28. Machiavelli The Prince, Chapter III
  29. Machiavelli's Virtue https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4EULB2IM50C&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvey+mansfield+machiavelli&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx4t-bn6bjAhXFGc0KHcJoCA4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=harvey%20mansfield%20machiavelli&f=false
  30. The Prince, Chapter XVIII, "In What Mode Should Faith Be Kept By Princes"
  31. The Prince. especially Chapters 3, 5 and 8
  32. Kanzler, Peter (22 June 2020). The Prince (1532), The Leviathan (1651), The Two Treatises of Government (1689), The Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776). pp. 22. ISBN 9781716844508. 
  33. Discourse on Political Economy: opening pages.
  34. Berlin, Isaiah. "The Originality of Machiavelli". http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/ac/machiavelli.pdf. 
  35. This point made most notably by (Strauss 1958).
  36. Mansfield, Harvey C. (25 February 1998) (in en). Machiavelli's Virtue. University of Chicago Press. pp. 228–229. ISBN 9780226503721. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4EULB2IM50C&q=machiavelli%27s+virtue. 
  37. Mansfield, Harvey C. (15 April 2001). Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226503707. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia_oOgHlR58C. 
  38. "Discourses on Livy: Book 1, Chapter 18". https://www.constitution.org/mac/disclivy1.htm. 
  39. Machiavelli, Niccolò (27 February 2009). Discourses on Livy: Book One, Chapter 9. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226500331. https://books.google.com/books?id=Km5itjMehYUC&q=discourses+machiavelli. 
  40. Machiavelli, Niccolò (27 February 2009). Discourses on Livy. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226500331. https://books.google.com/books?id=Km5itjMehYUC&q=the+discourses+machiavelli+mansfield. 
  41. Machiavelli, Niccolò (27 February 2009). Discourses on Livy: Book One, Chapter 16. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226500331. https://books.google.com/books?id=Km5itjMehYUC&q=discourses+machiavelli. 
  42. Rahe, Paul A. (14 November 2005). Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy. Cambridge University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9781139448338. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZqroV-TkIhgC&q=Thus,+the+charge+that+Machiavelli's+republic+is+a+tyranny+turns+out+to+be+true+after+&pg=PR60. 
  43. Hulliung, Mark (5 July 2017). Citizen Machiavelli. Routledge. ISBN 9781351528481. https://books.google.com/books?id=yCsxDwAAQBAJ&q=hulliung+citizen+machiavelli. 
  44. (Pocock 1975)
  45. Fischer (2000)
  46. Mansfield, Harvey C. (25 February 1998) (in en). Machiavelli's Virtue. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226503721. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4EULB2IM50C&q=mansfield+machiavelli+virtue. 
  47. Skinner, Quentin (30 November 1978) (in en). The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume 1, The Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521293372. https://books.google.com/books?id=GF6X2ow__MgC&q=quentin+skinner+machiavelli. 
  48. Pocock, J. G. A. (20 September 2016) (in en). The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400883516. https://books.google.com/books?id=1oj8CwAAQBAJ&q=pocock+machiavelli. 
  49. Strauss (1958)
  50. Paul Anthony Rahe, Against throne and altar: Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic (2008), p. 282
  51. Jack Donnelly, Realism and International Relations (2000), p. 68
  52. Joshua Kaplan (2005). "Political Theory: The Classic Texts and their Continuing Relevance". The Modern Scholar. "14 lectures in the series; (lectures #7) – see disc 4" 
  53. Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy (1987) p. 300
  54. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Chap 17
  55. Strauss, Leo (4 July 2014) (in en). Thoughts on Machiavelli. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226230979. https://books.google.com/books?id=oi2GDwAAQBAJ&q=leo+strauss. 
  56. Leo Strauss. Leo Strauss "Thoughts On Machiavelli". pp. 9. http://archive.org/details/LeoStraussThoughtsOnMachiavelli_201411. 
  57. Carritt, e f (1949). Benedetto Croce My Philosophy. http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123166. 
  58. Ernst Cassirer, The Myth of the State, (1946) p. 136, online https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0300000367?v=search-inside&keywords=machiavelli+galileo
  59. "When Isms go to War | StratBlog". 29 October 2013. http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/stratblog/2011/05/03/when-isms-go-to-war/. 
  60. Machiavelli, Niccolò (27 February 2009) (in en). Discourses on Livy. University of Chicago Press. pp. 131. ISBN 9780226500331. https://books.google.com/books?id=Km5itjMehYUC&q=machiavelli. 
  61. Mansfield, Harvey (1998) Machiavelli's Virtue, page 233 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4EULB2IM50C&lpg=PP1&dq=machiavelli's%20virtue&pg=PA233#v=onepage&q&f=false
  62. Machiavelli, Niccolò (27 February 2009) (in en). Discourses on Livy, Book 1, Chapter 11-15. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226500331. https://books.google.com/books?id=Km5itjMehYUC&q=discourses+on+livy. 
  63. Machiavelli, Niccolò (15 May 2010) (in en). The Prince: Second Edition. University of Chicago Press. pp. 69–71. ISBN 9780226500508. https://books.google.com/books?id=ehzOd8DVlNkC&q=the+prince+mansfield. 
  64. Especially in the Discourses III.30, but also The Prince Chap.VI
  65. (Strauss 1987)
  66. See for example (Strauss 1958).
  67. (Strauss 1958)
  68. (Mansfield 1993)
  69. (Bireley 1990)
  70. (Fischer 2000)
  71. "Definition of MACHIAVELLIAN". Definition of MACHIAVELLIAN. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Machiavellian. Retrieved 17 October 2018. 
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  75. Bireley (1990:15)
  76. Haitsma Mulier (1999:248)
  77. While Bireley focuses on writers in the Catholic countries, Haitsma Mulier (1999) makes the same observation, writing with more of a focus upon the Protestant Netherlands.
  78. The first English edition was A Discourse upon the meanes of wel governing and maintaining in good peace, a Kingdome, or other principalitie, translated by Simon Patericke.
  79. Bireley (1990:17)
  80. Bireley (1990:18)
  81. Bireley (1990:223–30)
  82. (Kennington 2004), (Rahe 2006)
  83. Bireley (1990:17): "Jean Bodin's first comments, found in his Method for the Easy Comprehension of History, published in 1566, were positive."
  84. Bacon wrote: "We are much beholden to Machiavelli and other writers of that class who openly and unfeignedly declare or describe what men do, and not what they ought to do." "II.21.9", Of the Advancement of Learning . See (Kennington 2004) Chapter 4.
  85. (Rahe 2006) chapter 6.
  86. Worden (1999)
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  89. (Schaefer 1990)
  90. (Kennington 2004), chapter 11.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Name: Niccolò Machiavelli
Born: May 1469
Died: Jun 1527
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Honor: The father of modern political philosophy and political science.
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