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REVIEWS Anti-Machiavel: A Discourse upon the Means of Well Governing. By I G. Trans. by S P. Ed. by R M. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. . xxxv+ pp. $; £. ISBN ––––. Attributed to French Huguenot Innocent Gentillet, Anti-Machiavel is a sixteenthcentury , full-blown response to Niccolò Machiavelli’s e Prince () and Discourses on Livy (). Anti-Machiavel was the ‘first known work devoted to a fullscale study of Machiavelli’ (Sydney Anglo, ‘Innocent Gentillet and Machiavelli’s “Maximes tyranniques”’, in Machiavelli: e First Century. Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ), pp. – (p. )). Popular in its day, Anti-Machiavel continues to engage writers, including Oana Alis Zaharia (‘Circulating Texts in the Renaissance: Simon Patericke’s Translation of Anti-Machiavel and the Fortunes of Gentillet in England’, University of Bucharest Review, (), –; discussed here by Ryan Murtha, p. xxiii); Luca Fezzi (‘“Battaglia” su Tito Livio: Innocent Gentillet contro Niccolò Machiavelli’, Semanas de Estudios Romanos, (), –); and Raphaele Garrod and Yasmin Haskell (‘“e Animal Outside”: Animal Ingenuity and Human Prudence in French Renaissance Political ought’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, . (), –
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