Observed arrival · 2026-11-02
Machiavelli’s Margin
A scholarly edition transcribes, translates, and annotates the marginalia in Niccolò Machiavelli’s own copy of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura.
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- Entries are keyed by the words each note faces, rather than by counting lines, and marked against Alison Brown’s published checklist.
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The page identifies the manuscript as a copy Machiavelli wrote himself, bound with Terence’s Eunuchus, and dates it to around 1497. Its transcription distinguishes verbal notes and reading marks from the copy’s corrections, variants, dropped or supplied lines, and other production features; it also records whether Alison Brown’s checklist includes each note.
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