Schedule of Classes

Machiavelli was a historian, comic play writer, political scientist, and humanist scholar. This course will examine the many different facets of the man, his times, and his influence on European thought. The main work of the course will be a thirty page research paper on some aspect of Machiavelli's thought, life or influence. During the first half of the semester, the works of Machiavelli will be read and discussed. In the second half, the paper will be written.   Grading will be based on class participation and presentations (40%).  The two papers will comprise 60% of the final grade.  The following books will be required:

Required Texts:

The Portable Machiavelli, edd. Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa (Penguin Books)

Machiavelli, Niccolò. Machiavelli and his Friends : Their Personal Correspondence (Northern Illinois University Press)

Suggested Essay  Topics
 
 
Machiavelli Site on the Web:  Bibliography, Essays, Facts, even Ideas!  Produced at the University of Pennsylvania

Background on Machiavelli
 

First Papers  

Books on reserve in Bird Library
 

Sebastian De Grazia, Machiavelli in Hell (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989) JC143.M3946 D4 1989

Eugene Garver, Machiavelli and the History of Prudence (Madison:  University of Wisconsin Press, 1987)        JC143.M3946 G37 1987

Felix Gilbert, Machiavelli and Guicciardini; Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1965)  DG738.13 .G5

Harvey Claflin Mansfield, Machiavelli's Virtue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) JC143.M4 M355 1996

Roger D. Masters, Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press,  1996) JC143.M4 M387 1996

John M. Najemy, Between Friends:  Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)     DG 738.14 M2 A4 1993

Anthony Parel, The Machiavellian Cosmos (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)  JC143.M4 P35 1992

John Greville A. Pocock, The Machiavelli Moment:  Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975) JC143.M4 P6

Peter S. Samuel, Machiavelli and Mystery of State (New York-Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)    JC143.M4 D65 1988

Quentin Skinner, Machiavelli (New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981) JC143.M4 S57 1981

Quentin Skinner and Gisela Bock, edd.  Machiavelli and Republicanism (New York-Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) JC143.M4 M317 1990