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Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)

by Francesco Guicciardini (Author), Mario Domandi (Translator), Nicolai Rubinstein (Introduction)
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ISBN-13: 978-0812210378
ISBN-10: 0812210379
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 150 pages
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (January 1, 1972)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812210379
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812210378
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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53 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Surviving the Rat-Race.
By tepi on June 27, 2001
On the surface of it, you wouldn't think a book such as this had much to offer us today, but you would be wrong. It belongs to a class of books which teach what I call the art of 'Crooked Wisdom,' but which could be more simply thought of as the art of survival in a far from perfect world.

Other books of this kind are Machiavelli's 'The Prince,' Balthasar Gracian's 'The Art of Worldly Wisdom,' and the 'Maxims of La Rochefoucauld.' Although the first of these may be a little too specialized to suit the needs of the ordinary person today, anyone who doesn't know one or two of the others, unless they happen to be exceptionally astute, is asking for trouble.

These books are both highly realistic and extremely practical, for they show us, not man as he is supposed to be and as we would like him to be, but man as he is with all his selfishness, stupidity, ambition, arrogance, malice, laziness and other imperfections, and they teach the art of how, not merely to survive, but even to thrive in the midst of our far from perfect fellow men and women.

'Crooked Wisdom,' then, should not be understood as the product of a crooked mind, but as the clear-sighted wisdom one needs to survive in a world teeming with such minds, a world involved in "the sordid struggle of self-interests, and in the scramble for power, position, and influence."

Another way of looking at 'Crooked Wisdom' is to see it as the art of avoiding dumb mistakes, an art based on a deep insight into human nature and into the quirks and foibles of our fellow men and women.Read more ›
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Lifetime of Collected Wisdom
By Me on December 9, 2011
I think the author is on a par with Sun Tzu, Miyamoto, and the other authors in the world on the topic. I think it is unfair to simply compare him to Machiavelli alone or to dismiss the work as being cynical. In politics and business, one must deal with both good people and bad. What kind of advice would it be if it only addressed dealing with good people. Sometimes one deals with tyrants and greedy people and good people need ethical ways of survival. Maxims and Reflections provides that.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
"The corruption of Italy codified and exalted into a rule of life"
By wiredweird HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on January 11, 2009
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So says one commentator on Francesco Guicciardini's musings. He was, at one time, a close friend of Niccolo Machiavelli, and shares the latter's amoral approach to statesmanship and to life in general. NM, however, at least made a show of dedicating his writings to the prince then in power. Although FG served various governments as ambassador and in other roles, his first loyalty always lay in himself.

As a result, these scraps of advice and counsel come across as representing two different personalities. One, the statesman and man of honor, says, "Do not strive harder to gain favor than to keep your good reputation ... [t]he man who maintains reputation will never lack for friends, favor, and good will." Here and elsewhere, FG makes clear that how others know you affects every aspect of one's success among them. But, just a moment before, he also says "Always deny what you don't want to be known." FG's honor and honesty come across as situational at best, or perhaps just one more tool for manipulating his listeners to his will.

Many of his wiles and observations still ring true, for better or for worse. A few, however draw sharp contrast between his time and our own. In one, he says "Never argue against religion or against things that seem to depend on God. These matters are too strongly rooted in the minds of fools." Whether you share his anti-religious bias or not, faith-based arguments are notoriously fruitless even today. FG's maxim, however, must be reviewed now that fundamentalists of many kinds, in many countries, attempt to or do control education, science, rule of law, and basic human rights using partial or total theocracy.Read more ›
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