Synopses & Reviews
Review
"I definitely recommend this book, not only to the scholarly specialist in the history of ideas, literature and political thought but to anyone who at some time has been intrigued by Machiavelli and the Machiavellian tradition." Times Higher Education Supplement"Donaldson is straightforward, easy to use as reference, but still sophisticated in his thesis and presentation....Donaldson's work remains an attractive interpretation of Machiavelli's impact on the secular and sacred view of kingship in western Europe." Canadian Journal of History
Synopsis
This book studies the sacred and secular conceptions of kingship in the Renaissance.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Machiavelli and Antichrist: prophetic typology in Reginald Pole's De Unitate and Apologia ad Carolum Quintum; 2. Bishop Gardiner, Machiavellian; 3. John Wolfe, Machiavelli, and the republican arcana in sixteenth-century England; 4. Machiavelli and the arcana imperii; 5. Gabriel Naudé: magic and Machiavelli; 6. Biblical Machiavellism: Louis Machon's Apologie pour Machiavel; Index.