From The Contents
Chapter 1.The Politica. General Introduction
1.1. Justus Lipsius, Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae libri sex
1.2. Purposes and arrangement of this book
1.3. Lipsius-reception since the eighteenth century
1.4. Gerhard Oestreich’s interpretation of Lipsius’ political thought
Chapter 2. From Philology to Philosophy: Lipsius’ life and Backgrounds in political thought
A. Lipsius
2.1. Biography
2.2. The political content of the correspondence up to 1589
2.3. De Constantia as background to the Politica
2.4. Other works relevant to Lipsius’ political thought
B. Backgrounds in Political Thought of the Sixteenth Century
2.5. Traditional Political Morality
2.6. Challenges and Alternatives to the traditional political morality
Chapter 3. Reading the Politica: the format of the work
3.1. Organising knowledge
3.2. Commonplaces
3.3. Lipsius’ Commonplaces
3.4.The Politica as a Commonplace-book
3.5.The Politica as a Cento
3.6. The problem of interpretation in the Politica
Chapter 4. Context and Interpretation
4.1. Preliminary remarks
4.2. Lipsius’ position in contemporary moral and political debates
4.3. After1589. The Reception of the Politica
Chapter 5. Ancient Sources
5.1. General
5.2. Aristotle
5.3. De Constantia, Politica, and Cicero
5.4.The Politica and Seneca
5.5.The Politica and Tacitus
5.6.The Politica and Sallust
Table 1. Tacitus-quotations in the Politica
Chapter 6. History of the Text. Publication, Adaptation, Dissemination
6.1. The first edition, Leiden1589 (quarto and octavo)
6.2. The second edition, Leiden 1590 (reprinted 1595)
6.3. The third edition, (Antwerp 1596 and later): Expurgated by the Vatican
6.4. The editions of 1599 and 1604
6.5.The Notae
6.6. Editions not by Plantin
6.7. Some translations
Conclusion
Summary of the Politica
text & translation
I. Principles of this edition
II. About this translation
III. Stemma Editionum
IV. Sigla
Justus Lipsius, Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae libri sex
appendices
Appendix 1. Documents
Appendix 2. Lipsius’ Notae to the Politica
Appendix 3.Notes
Appendix 4. Neo-Latin language, words and word forms
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