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Classic Texts in Political Philosophy
The Analects by Confucius ''The Republic by Plato The Laws by Plato Gorgias by Plato Phaedrus by Plato The Phaedo by Plato The Apology of Socrates by Plato Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians by Xenophon History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides The Politics by Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Defensor pacis by Marsilius of Padua The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon Novum Organon by Francis Bacon The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli The Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke Nonsense on Stilts by Jeremy Bentham On Liberty by John Stuart Mill An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Two Treatises of Government by John Locke The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay Utopia by Thomas More Essays Moral Political and Literary by David Hume The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Political Writings by Immanuel Kant The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche Selected Writings by Karl Marx Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft Democracy in America'' by Alexis De Tocqueville
The Invasions of Italy, Machiavelli and Guicciardini
Chapter 4 of the book "Renaissance and Reformation" by William Gilbert. Discusses the political climate and the two major thinkers.

Virtù in and since the Renaissance
Jerrold E. Seigel writes about the concept and how it is used by Machiavelli and later thinkers. From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

Political Thought in the 16th Century
An overview of the Florentine thinkers. From the European Educational Project.


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