The Unpublished Writings of Machiavelli in the Florentine Chancery

FAIN: RE-10070-71

UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)
Fredi Chiapelli (Project Director: January 1971 to present)

To study the heretofore unexamined works of Machiavelli written while he was Chancellor of the Florentine government. The investigation of the personal intervention of Machiavelli in the affairs of state will not only help to identify the origin of his problematics, language and style, but also to outline more precisely the functioning of the Republic's government. The proposal will: establish an inventory of the Machiavellian autographs in European and American collections; perform the diplomatic transciption of the autographs; prepare a sound edition of them with explanatory notes in four volumes.