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Music for Machiavelli, a pop-up exhibition at the Folger in support of a Folger Consort performance by the same name, took place on September 25, 2019, at 6pm. It was curated by Greg Prickman, the Eric Weinmann Librarian and Director of Collections.

For this event, Folger Director Michael Witmore and Dr. Christopher Celenza, Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, engaged in a lively discussion on Machiavelli and his iconic political treatise, The Prince. Following the discussion, Greg Prickman guided attendees through a selection of items from the Folger collections related to Machiavelli, The Prince, and early sixteenth-century Italy.

Items included

1) Neville, Henry, 1620-1694
A true copy of a letter : written by N. Machiavill, in defence of himself, and his religion.
London: R. Bentley, 1691
Call Number: 154- 772q

2) Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Discorsi
Florence: Bernardo di Giunta, 10 November, 1531
Call Number: 166- 897q

3) Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Le prince de Nicolas Machiauelle secretaire et citoien de Florence / traduit d’italien en françoys par Guillaume Cappel.
Paris: Charles Estienne, 1553
Call Number: 234- 368q

4) Unknown
The atheisticall polititian or A briefe discourse concerning Ni. Machiavell.
[London]: [1642]
Call Number: Wing A4109

5) Unknown
Nicolaus Machiavelus Florentin, supremum per te nacta est prudentia ... [graphic]
[S.I.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]
Call Number: Art Vol. a12 no. 58

6) Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529
Il libro del cortegiano
Venice: Aldo Romano and Andrea d’Asola, 1528
Call Number: BJ1604 .C4 1528 Cage

7) Unknown
[A] caveat for wives to love their husbands or, Pleasant news from hell. : Written in Italian by that grand politician Nicholas Machiavel and now translated into English for a Christmas-gigg.
London: 1660
Call Number: Wing M132.5

8) Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Institutio principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis
Basel: Johann Froben, 1516
Call Number: PA8517 .I5 1516 Cage

9) Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Il principe...
Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 4 January 1532
Call Number: Bd. w. PQ4627 .M2 H5 1532 Cage

10) Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638
A treatise of the interest of the princes and states of Christendome
London: Ric. Hodgkinsonne, 1641
Call Number: Wing R1868

11) Gentillet, Innocent, ca.1535-ca.1595
A discourse vpon the meanes of vvel governing and maintaining in good peace, a kingdome, or other principalitie.
London: Adam Islip, 1602
Call Number: STC 11743 copy 1

12) STC 14354 copy 1
13) STC 14357
14) STC 17160 copy 2
15) STC 17164
16) STC 17167
17) STC 17168
18) STC 3704.3
19) V.a.263
20) V.a.604

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 ''Institutio principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis ''<br/>
 Basel: Johann Froben, 1516<br/>