in Machiavelli’s Thought’ in

History of Political Thought

9 (1988), pp. 237-61. Harvey C. Mansfield,

Machiavelli’s Virtue (Chicago, 1996).

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This has recently become a major focus of research. For pioneering studies see Nancy S. Struever,

The Language of History in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and Historical Consciousness in Florentine Humanism (Princeton, 1970) and Brian Richardson, 'Notes on Machiavelli’s Sources and his Treatment of the Rhetorical Tradition’,

Italian Studies

26 (1971), pp. 24-48. The first part of Victoria Kahn,

Machiavellian Rhetoric from the Counter-Reformation to Milton (Princeton, 1994) considers the rhetoric of Machiavelli’s

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