The political treatise, dedicated to Florentine ruler Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici, was circulated as a manuscript before Machiavelli’s death in 1527. Seven manuscripts, some of which were ...
Compiled by Dr. John Ponet, Bishop of Rochester and Worchester. A Short Treatise on Political Power, and of the true obedience which subjects owe to kings and other civil governors, with an ...