A Political Breviary
Attributed to Cardinal Mazarin · Cologne, 1684 · Translated by Antonio García
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Octant Press
About this book
A compact early-modern manual of political prudence and dissimulation — reading faces, sounding out loyalties, detecting flatterers and false friends, making allies, and keeping one's own counsel.
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