Machiavelli and Mystery of State

• Preface; 1. Machiavelli and Antichrist: prophetic typology in Reginald Pole's De Unitate and Apologia ad Carolum Quintum; 2. Bishop Gardiner, Machiavellian; 3. John Wolfe, Machiavelli, and the republican arcana in sixteenth-century England; 4. Machiavelli and the arcana imperii; 5. Gabriel Naudé: magic and Machiavelli; 6. Biblical Machiavellism: Louis Machon's Apologie pour Machiavel; Index.

'I definitely recommend this book, not only to the scholarly specialist in the history of ideas, literature and political thought but to anyone who at some time has been intrigued by Machiavelli and the Machiavellian tradition.' The Times Higher Education Supplement