Nicolai Machiavelli Princeps : cum Animadversionibus politicis Hermanni Conringii, textui singulorum capitum in sectiones diviso ita additis, ut quae ad quamque sectionem pertinent animadversiones sub ea statim legantur, editio nova à b. auctore quibusdam locis aucta : accessit Vita Castruccii à Nic. Machiavello descripta, cum aliis nonnullis / curante Herman. Johanne Herm. fil. Conringio, judicii provincialis Wolfenbuttel assessore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527, author.

Contributor:

Conring, Hermann, 1606-1681, translator.

Conring, Hermann Johann, 1644-1695, editor.

Hamm, Georg Wolfgang, active 1681-1715, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Principe. Latin

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Political ethics--Early works to 1800.

Political ethics.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Principe--Early works to 1800.

Machiavelli, Niccolò.

Principe (Machiavelli, Niccolò).

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Hough, Samuel J., 1939-2019 (former owner) (Kislak Center JC143 .M3 1686 copy 1)

Hough, Penelope (former owner) (Kislak Center JC143 .M3 1686 copy 1)

Lurie, Dean K. (donor) (Kislak Center JC143 .M3 1686 copy 2)

Physical Description:

[72], 328 [i.e. 326], [2] pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Princeps

Fingerprint:

m-u- n-ma i-um acPr (3) 1686 (R)

Place of Publication:

HelmaestadI [Helmstedt] : Typis & sumptibus Georg-Wolfgangi Hammii, Acad. typogr., Anno MDCLXXXVI [1686]

Notes:

Translated by Hermann Conring.

Signatures: a-i⁴ A-2S⁴.

Errors in pagination: pages 212-213 numbered 112-113; page 278 numbered 728; pages 297-298 omitted.

Title in red and black.

Woodcut initials, head-pieces and tail-piece.

Printed marginalia.

Includes "Antonii Possevini ... Judicium de Nicolao Machiavello. Excerptum ex libro illius Romae ex Typogr. Vaticana editio. M D XCII." (leaves f1r-f4r); "Excerpta ex L. III. De nobilitate Christiana Hieronymi Osorii ... de nonnullis sententiis Nicolai Machiavelli" (leaves f4v-h3v); and, in addition to the Vita Castruccii [Castracani Lecensis] mentioned in the title, "Modus quo usus est Dux Valentinus in necando Vitellotio Vitellio ...", appended to the Princeps.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center JC143 .M3 1686 copy 1 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Penelope Hough. Early manuscript marginal note on leaf A2r. Bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt (with their folded advertisement card laid in) in full blind-tooled red morocco(?); 4 raised, blind-tooled bands on spine; brief title stamped in gold on spine; all edges stippled red and blue; housed in slip case.

Kislak Center JC143 .M3 1686 copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Dean K. Lurie. Armorial bookplate of an unidentified former owner on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Bertelli & Innocenti. Bib. machiavelliana, XVII. 81

Gerber, A. Machiavelli, III, p. 79, no. 2

VD 17 1:002017A

Contains:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Vita di Castruccio Castracani. Latin.

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Modo che tenne il duca Valentino per ammazare Vitellozo. Latin.

Conring, Hermann, 1606-1681. Animadversiones politicae in Nicolae Machiavelli librum De principe.

Possevino, Antonio, 1533 or 1534-1611. Judicium de Nuae, militis Galli, scriptis. Selections.

Osório, Jerónimo, 1506-1580. De nobilitate civili et Christiana libri V. Selections.

Iudicium de Nuae militis Galli scriptis.

OCLC:

33117130