Innocent gentillet machiavelli biography

Innocent Gentillet (1535–1588) was a French lawyer and politician.
Born around 1532 in Vienne, France, Innocent Gentillet was a Huguenot lawyer who fled to Geneva after the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572.
Jurist and political writer of Huguenot faith, Innocent Gentillet was born in Vienne (France) around 1532 and died in Geneva in 1588.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)

For other uses, see Machiavelli (disambiguation) and Macchiavelli (surname).

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli^[a] (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine^[4]^[5] diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.^[6] He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.^[7]

For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is also important to historians and scholars of Italian correspondence.^[8] He worked as secretary to the second chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.

After his death Machiavelli's

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Review

"Innocent Gentillet's Anti-Machiavel, published in French in 1576 and Latin in 1577, was a very significant work and played a critical role in establishing the lasting misunderstanding about Niccolò Machiavelli as a supporter of autocratic, amoral, and dictatorial government. The English translation of the work by Simon Patericke published in 1602 is here updated with modern spelling and punctuation by Ryan Murtha. Murtha shows in a lengthy introduction and several appendices that Gentillet's work was certainly read in early seventeenth-century England and that some of his ideas and prose can be found in the writings of figures such as William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon."
--Mack Holt, Professor of History, George Mason University

"The evidence for Francis Bacon's involvement in the creation, editing, and publication of the Shakespeare works becomes stronger every year and this book will add to it."
--Sir Mark Rylance, former artistic director, Shakespeare's Globe, London

About the Author

Ryan Murtha is an independent researcher and writer.

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Innocent Gentillet

French lawyer and politician

Innocent Gentillet (1535–1588) was a French lawyer and politician.

Biography

A Huguenot moderate lawyer and parliamentarian, he was exiled to Geneva after the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and then returned to France after the Edict of Beaulieu in 1576. His Protestant views are the cause of a new exile to Geneva in 1585, where he died in 1588.

He wrote and published in 1576 the Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner (Sermon on the means of governing), in which he condemned the ideas of Niccolò Machiavelli, suspected of trying to introduce impiety and immorality in government. He also accused the Italians of the entourage of Catherine de' Medici to make the propagators.^[1] The book, translated and published in Latin in 1577, then in English, has considerable diffusion throughout Europe until the mid-seventeenth century. It was known as the Anti-Machiavel and was the first source of the concept machiavellism. Gentillet argues that the source of wealth of a state is its large population. He believes