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Terry Castle

Niccolò Machiavelli

Wayne A. Rebhorn

A Norton Critical Edition

Price of Salt

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize for 1988-90 This book connects Machiavelli's literary works with his political and historical writings, and relates all of them to his life history, his concerns with power and powerlessness, and his characteristic modes of self-representation.

Machiavelli's Confidence Men

Foxes and Lions

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Courtly Performances

Giovanni Boccaccio

Revised for the 700th anniversary of the author's birth, this richly descriptive tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by telling 100 stories.

The Decameron

Wayne A. Rebhorn

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