Robert
Lowell
NEAR
THE OCEAN
Giuseppe
Prezzolini
MACHIAVELLI
Translated
by
Gioconda Savini
T
HE
long opening
poem,
"Waking
Early Sunday Morning," is
the
first
of a
sequence
of five
poems
that con·
tinues
with "Fourth of July in Maine,"
"The
Opposite House," "Central Park,"
and "Near the Ocean." This sequence
is
followed by two short
poems, "1958"
and "For Theodore Roethke." In the
style he calls "imitations," Mr. Lowell
includes versions of three odes of
Horace; the whole of Juvenal's tenth
satire, "The Vanity of Human Wishes";
Dante's "Brunetto Latini" (Canto XV
of
the
Inferno);
and a sonnet sequence,
"The Ruins of Time," based on poems
of
Quevedo and Gongora. With draw·
ings by the distinguished Australian
painter Sidney Nolan.
$6.00
T
HE
theme of Professor Prezzolini's
book is that Machiavelli is our con–
temporary, and that Machiavellianism
is
honored today in observance (though
officially abhorred) more than at any
time in history. Prezzolini reviews the
life, works, and doctrines of Machia.
velli, and then does a survey of Machia–
vellianism in the major countries of the
world, including the United States and
Russia. "His [Machiavelli's] genius was
authentic. This book is a worthy trjbute
to it .•• Sympathetic and profoundly
erudite .•. Truly monumental scholar–
ship."-WALTER MILLIS.
$8.50
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&
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