| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations and Note on Spelling and Translations | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Machiavelli | 13 |
| 1 | The Prince | 18 |
| 2 | The Discourses | 44 |
| 3 | Rhetoric and Reason of State: Botero's Reading of Machiavelli | 60 |
| Pt. 2 | English Machiavellism | 85 |
| 4 | Reading Machiavelli, 1550-1640 | 93 |
| 5 | Machiavellian Debates, 1530-1660 | 132 |
| Pt. 3 | Milton | 167 |
| 6 | A Rhetoric of Indifference | 171 |
| 7 | Virtue and Virtu in Comus | 185 |
| 8 | Machiavellian Rhetoric in Paradise Lost | 209 |
| Coda: Rhetoric and the Critique of Ideology | 237 |
| Appendix: A Brief Note on Rhetoric and Republicanism in the Historiography of the Italian Renaissance | 243 |
| Notes | 249 |
| Index | 311 |
