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Genoa, [Antonio Roccatagliata], 1582. In 4°. Beautiful typographical device on the title page, some browned leaves, traces of censorship cancellations corresponding to the author's name, contemporary limp parchment.
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A RARE AND SOUGHT-AFTER POLITICAL TREATISE
The work contains 39 speeches with advice for those who held positions of command, whether civil or military , including: "How much harm and how much benefit suspicion causes; That fear divides the city, most often causes the people not to estimate dangers and sometimes does not receive advice; How unstable the crowd and the plebs are; What things are sought in advice and that it is not good for it to arise from fear, in passionate people; How prudent it is for every potentate not to be led into need of money and how such a disorder can be remedied; Whoever follows ambition often loses his honor and sometimes his life; That soldiers must be trained and that from idleness most often plundering arises; That celerity, the light of the moon, the wind, the quality of weapons, the way of using them, a single voice gives and takes away victories; That severity is necessary and useful to whoever has to govern subjects or manage soldiers. and how harmful is excessive licentiousness and intemperance; Of some considerations that princes or heads of republics must have regarding the government of states; Of how harmful conspiracies are not so much to those against whom they are made as to the conspirators".
The work contains 39 speeches with advice for those who held positions of command, whether civil or military , including: "How much harm and how much benefit suspicion causes; That fear divides the city, most often causes the people not to estimate dangers and sometimes does not receive advice; How unstable the crowd and the plebs are; What things are sought in advice and that it is not good for it to arise from fear, in passionate people; How prudent it is for every potentate not to be led into need of money and how such a disorder can be remedied; Whoever follows ambition often loses his honor and sometimes his life; That soldiers must be trained and that from idleness most often plundering arises; That celerity, the light of the moon, the wind, the quality of weapons, the way of using them, a single voice gives and takes away victories; That severity is necessary and useful to whoever has to govern subjects or manage soldiers. and how harmful is excessive licentiousness and intemperance; Of some considerations that princes or heads of republics must have regarding the government of states; Of how harmful conspiracies are not so much to those against whom they are made as to the conspirators".
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