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Opere inedite di Niccolò Machiavelli.

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First edition of previously unpublished writings by the great Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), edited by Giovanni Maria Lampredi (1732–1793).

The text comprises a discourse on reforming the Republic of Florence, written by Machiavelli for Pope Leo X, and 40 letters concerning state affairs penned to various correspondents in his capacity as secretary of the Republic in 1510 and 1511. According to the preface, they are taken from a manuscript discovered by a ‘learned Englishman’ travelling in Tuscany and preserved in the library of the Gaddi family. For Lampredi these writings demonstrate Machiavelli’s ‘kindness, fairness, wisdom, and humanity’, contrary to the popular perception of him as ‘an impious and violent man’.

ESTC T91122.

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