Download or read book (Un)masking the Realities of Power written by Erik Bom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from Justus Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica (1605), this book offers a collection of essays dealing with the disputed Macchiavellian, Tacitean or Neostoic character of Lipsius's political thought, and its impact on the dynamics of political discourse in Early Modern Europe.