Anti-Machiavel

By Innocent Gentillet

Book Overview

Born around 1532 in Vienne, France, Innocent Gentillet was a Huguenot lawyer who fled to Geneva after the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572. In 1576, he published Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner & maintenir en paix un Royaume, ou autre Principaute, Contre Nicolas Machiavel Florentin, popularly known as Anti-Machiavel. Despite a papal ban in 1605, Anti-Machiavel went through twenty-four editions in French, Latin, English, German, and Dutch; it was read and used by Montaigne and Shakespeare. This edition presents Simon Patericke's 1602 English translation, revised for modern spelling and grammar, and explores Anti-Machiavel's connections with other works of the period.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532659725
• ISBN13: 9781532659720
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"