Felix Gilbert

Machiavelli, The Chief Works and Others.

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The Pope, His Banker, and Venice

This study of Renaissance adventures and struggles against fate brings to life a brilliant age and its exemplars. It is a story of how several men, including Julius II, worked, intrigued, and made business deals against the backdrop of an Italy invaded by continental countries and England. The future of the once great Republic of Venice was at stake as it was besieged and in desperate need of allies. The Papacy switched sides, breaking the seemingly invincible and mostly foreign League of Cambrai, and saw that Venice was offered a loan by Agostino Chigi, the richest man of his time. The Popes banker, as daring as Julius II, negotiated with the formidable communal rulers of Venice and Italy was kept from further dismemberment.As a dramatic account that brings together diplomacy, war, business, and politics, viewed through one long entrepreneurial venture, this book is unique. It juxtaposes differing institutional structures and the various political ways among Italys city states; it also brings into sharp focus the new men of the Renaissance. Their dealings and lifestyles were original and bold. They were successful against great odds and flaunted their new wealth and position in society in building great palaces and estates and becoming patrons of art. Felix Gilbert is a master teacher of history, and his new work is as luminous as the men and events he tells about.

Machiavelli and Guicciardini. Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence

In Felix Gilberts skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance.

Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought from Machiavelli to Hitler

This remarkable collection of essays by twenty authors provided a history of military strategy from Machiavelli to the present age. Published in the middle of World War II, the volume analyzed and described the ideas of the major military thinkers and strategists, ranging from engineers such as Vauban to soldiers such as Frederick the Great; from the statesmen Alexander Hamilton, Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill to the revolutionaries Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The book grew out of a seminar conducted annually, beginning in , by Edward Mead Earle at the Institute for Advanced Study. At a time when social scientists and historians devoted little attention to the study of military strategy and the art of warfare, this seminar provoked fresh perspectives on how leading minds at different times had understood the reasons for war, how wars should be conducted, and the way politics and war interacted. Historian Peter Paret replaced Earle as the primary editor for a second edition, which was assembled during the Cold War and bore the new subtitle Military Thought from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Paret reconceived the volume, replacing all but one essay, to confront the challenge that nuclear weapons posed, given pronouncements that such weapons had rendered war “unthinkable.”