Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy

by J. R. Hale.

by J. R Hale

• 184 Want to read
• 26 Currently reading

Published 1961 by English Universities Press in (London) .
Written in

Subjects:

• Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527.,
• Renaissance -- Italy.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliography.

Series	Men and their times
The Physical Object
Pagination	(xii) 190 p. :
Number of Pages	190
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL19137520M

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