ABSTRACT
Defense o f Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age o f the Counter Reformation (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 144-61; J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (Princeton, 1975), pp. 272-330. James VI is alleged to have told the Venetian ambassador to England in 1603 that Buchanan had instructed him in the excellence of Venice’s constitution; see D.H. Willson, King James VI and I (London, 1956), p. 21. That he did not convince his pupil is suggested by the king’s remarks on ‘the Duke of Venice’ in the Trew Lawe o f Free Monarchies (see Minor Prose Works, p. 73).
