"A Good One Though Rather for the Foreign Market": Mercenary Writing and Scott's Quentin Durward (Sir Walter Scott's 'Quentin Durward', Niccolo Machiavelli's 'the Prince') (Critical Essay)
Studies in Romanticism 2009, Winter, 48, 4
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The Mercenary Context: Machiavelli, Ferguson, Smith IN THE PRINCE (1513), NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI SETS OUT PRINCIPLES THAT have ever since grounded opposition to the employment of mercenary and auxiliary troops. (1) "Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous," he writes:
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Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2009
22 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
35
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Boston University
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