An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance art.

    Its virtues were comparativeclarity and conciseness on a subject too often treated, for example bycontemporary work in German, with prolixity and obscurity. It becamethe standard scholarly introduction and reference work on questions ofdialect; and though much valuable additional work has been done on thesubject since its appearance, it largely retains its original virtuesand still provides a valuable starting point of reference.The Advanced Language Series reissues important books on Greek andLatin Language (and associated areas) which have been unavailable forsome time or have not previously appeared in readily affordablepaperback format. They are intended for the reference shelves of allscholars and students of classical languages.

    Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. "We are in sympathy," he writes, "with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech." This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.