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''Music for Machiavelli'', a [[Pop-up exhibitions at the Folger|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.<br/>
See [[Music for Machiavelli (2019)]]
 
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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.<br/> 
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==Items included==
1) '''Neville, Henry, 1620-1694'''<br/>
''A true copy of a letter : written by N. Machiavill, in defence of himself, and his religion.''<br/>
London: R. Bentley, 1691<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=155289 154- 772q]<br/>
 
2) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Discorsi''<br/>
Florence: Bernardo di Giunta, 10 November, 1531<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=75491 166- 897q]<br/>
 
3) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Le prince de Nicolas Machiauelle secretaire et citoien de Florence / traduit d’italien en françoys par Guillaume Cappel.''<br/>
Paris: Charles Estienne, 1553<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=89381 234- 368q]<br/>
 
4) '''Unknown'''
''The atheisticall polititian or A briefe discourse concerning Ni. Machiavell.''
[London]: [1642]<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=155134 Wing A4109]<br/>
 
5) '''Unknown'''<br/>
''Nicolaus Machiavelus Florentin, supremum per te nacta est prudentia ... [graphic]''<br/>
[S.I.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=259619 Art Vol. a12 no. 58]<br/>
 
6) '''Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529'''<br/>
''Il libro del cortegiano''<br/>
Venice: Aldo Romano and Andrea d’Asola, 1528<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=75418 BJ1604 .C4 1528 Cage]<br/>
 
7) '''Unknown'''<br/>
''[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.''<br/>
London: 1660<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=148241 Wing M132.5]<br/>
 
8) '''Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536'''
''Institutio principis Christiani saluberrimis referta praeceptis ''<br/>
Basel: Johann Froben, 1516<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=338709 PA8517 .I5 1516 Cage]<br/>
 
9) '''Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527'''<br/>
''Il principe...''<br/>
Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 4 January 1532<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=75461 Bd. w. PQ4627 .M2 H5 1532 Cage]<br/>
 
10) '''Rohan, Henri, duc de, 1579-1638'''<br/>
''A treatise of the interest of the princes and states of Christendome''<br/>
London: Ric. Hodgkinsonne, 1641<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=149066 Wing R1868]<br/>
 
11) '''Gentillet, Innocent, ca.1535-ca.1595'''<br/>
''A discourse vpon the meanes of vvel governing and maintaining in good peace, a kingdome, or other principalitie.''<br/>
London: Adam Islip, 1602<br/>
Call Number: [http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=168865 STC 11743 copy 1]<br/>
 
12) STC 14354 copy 1<br/>
13) STC 14357<br/>
14) STC 17160 copy 2<br/>
15) STC 17164<br/>
16) STC 17167<br/>
17) STC 17168<br/>
18) STC 3704.3<br/>
19) V.a.263<br/>
20) V.a.604<br/>

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