[Gentillet, Innocent]

A Discourse upon the Meanes of Wel Governing and Maintaining in GoodPeace, a Kingdome, or other Principalitie . .. against NicholasMachiavel the Florentine. Translated into English by Simon Patricke

London: Adam Islip, 1608 Second edition in English of Gentillet's reply to Machiavell's IL PRINCIPE, translated from Gentillet's DISCOURS SUR LES MOYENS DE BIEN GOUVERNER ET MAINTENIR EN BONNE PAIX UN ROYAUME OU AUTRE PRINCIPAUT, which was first published. Gentillet (1550-1595) was a Huguenot lawyer and ardent Calvinist whose attack on Machivelli became one of the most widely circulated in the 16th century. First puiblsihed in French in 1576, four years after the St. Bartholomew's massacre o Protestants by the French monarchy, it saw its first publication in England in 1602 in Simon Patrick's translation. This is the second edition of that translation; both are quite scarce Second edition. Folio. . Later half green calf and cloth. Some occasional early dampstains, title leaf repaired at outer margin and slightly soiled, small repair to corners of ¶iii-iv, lacking first leaf (blank) but otherwise a good, crisp copy of a very scarce book. STC 11744

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