Music for Machiavelli

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) 154- 772q
2) 166- 897q
3) 234- 368q
4) Wing A4109
5) Art Vol. a12 no. 58
6) BJ1604 .C4 1528 Cage
7) Wing M132.5
8) PA8517 .I5 1516 Cage
9) Bd. w. PQ4627 .M2 H5 1532 Cage
10) Wing R1868
11) 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