| Description | Commonplace book in an unknown hand. Consists chiefly of extracts from the works of Machiavelli and commentators on Machiavelli, and notes on the works of Bacon.<br />
There are extensive notes from Machiavelli's "Discourses", trans. E Dacres (1636), "Prince", trans. E Dacres (1640), and "The Florentine historie", trans. T Bedingfield (1595). Notes from the commentators are headed "Ex Bellermontano Mac. Illust." (unidentified edition) and "Ex Anti Machiavel" (from the Latin edition of Gentillet, "Commentariorum de regno aut quo vis principátu ree te... administrando" (1577).<br />
Also includes "Notes taken out of Bacons Essayes Relating to Government", from the collection of 1625; "Natura nationu ex variis Authoribus Collecta", which includes notes from Saavedra Fajardo, "Idea Principis Christiano politici", Brussels, 1649; Campanella, "De rhetorica in "Philosophiae rationalis
partes quinqué", Paris 1638; and Guicciardini; and notes titled "Natura ho minis ex variis authoribus collect & ad usum applicata" which includes notes from Saavedra Fajardo, Polybius, Cardan, Machiavelli, Cicero, Seneca, Aristotle, Bacon and Hobbes [Leviathan, 1651).<br />
Also various short notes, including a brief reference to "J. Goodw. defence of the Armies garbling the Parlam' (John Goodwin, Right and might well met, 1648); "Natura serpentis in quibus exprimitur" (notes from Saavedra Fajardo and Del Rio, "Adagialia sacra", Lyons, 1614-1618).
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At the end of the volume there are two lists of references: "for nature of man see these authors - Polybius. Tacitus. Guicc. Mac. workes Bodin Lib. 5. Repub.
cap. 1. Lipsius Civil. Doct. Cardan opera Aristot. Pol. Rhetor, prob. Magyrus under several heads Fracchetta tit. vulgus" and "Chiefe Authours out of which nature of Man is Drawen Tacit. Aristot. Polyb. Xenophon. Guicd. Mac. Card. Saved. Bacon."
<br />A very faint entry at one end has the date 2 January 1661. |