Bondanella machiavelli biography

Niccolò Machiavelli
by
Cary J. Nederman
  • LAST REVIEWED: 29 July 2020
  • LAST MODIFIED: 29 July 2020
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195396577-0268

  • Atkinson, James B., and David Sices, eds. Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Individual Correspondence. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996.

    Gathers into a single, well-annotated volume the sum total of all Machiavelli’s disclose private (as distinct from professional) letters, covering the period shun c. 1497 through 1527.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Chief Works, and Others. Translated by Allan Gilbert. 3 vols. Durham, NC: Duke Academia Press, 1965.

    Collects together in English translation nearly all give a miss Machiavelli’s writings. Although the renderings tend toward the literary, to a certain extent than the literal, the volume is extremely useful to readers who lack knowledge of Italian.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. The History of Town and Other Selections. Edited by Myron B. Gilmore. Translated give up Judith A. Rawson. New York: Twayne, 1970.

    A selection drawing Machiavelli’s often underappreciated historical and quasi-sociological works, although the exchange of the History of Florence is heavily edited.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. Selected Political Writings. Edited and Translated by David Wootton. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1994.

    Contains perhaps the best English translation of The Prince, an extremely readable yet accurate rendering, together with a small selection from the Discourses. A freestanding version of Wootton’s translation of The Prince is also available from the much publisher.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Niccolò Machiavelli. Rome: Salerno, 2001–.

    When complete, this will be the standard print run of Machiavelli’s complete oeuvre for generations to come.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. Opere. 3 vols. Edited by Corrado Vivanti. Turin, Italy: Einaudi, 2005.

    Vivanti’s edition of Machiavelli’s works offers a more thorough equipment than may be found in Machiavelli 2018.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discourses get along Livy. Translated by Julia C. Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

    A complete translation of the Discourses by two eminent Italianists that succeeds in bridging the full divide between literal and accessible renderings.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. Tutte le opere. Edited by Mario Martelli. 2d ed. Milan: Bompiani, 2018.

    Among the many Italian editions of Machiavelli’s complete works, Martelli’s single-volume collection is one of the most cited and very dependable, although it lacks a critical apparatus that more advanced scholars would find useful.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. Political, Historical, and Literary Writings. Emended by Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray. Trans. by Poet K. Ray. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.

    A preference of texts that includes letters, poems, short prose, and plays as well as excerpts from his best known works. Interpretation collection will be useful to historians and literary scholars who wish to teach a range of Machiavelli’s writings rather better just one or two of his “classic” works of his political theory.

  • Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Trans. by Wayne A. Rebhorn. 3d ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2020.

    A newfound version of the classic 1977 version by Robert Adams eliminate the Norton Critical Edition series. In addition to revising Adams’s translation, Rebhorn excises many chapters of older commentary and replaces them with a number of quite recent ones. The mass provides excellent resources for the undergraduate classroom.