Friday 25 November
14.30 Welcome & Introduction
Bernard Stolte (Rome)
Enzo Baldini (Turin)
Hans Blom (Potsdam)
15.00-16.30
Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum), French Machiavellians and the Dutch Revolt
Alberto Clerici (Rome), Antimachiavellism in Dutch propaganda during the Revolt
17.00-18.30
Stefano Visentin (Urbino), The Coornhert-Lipsius Clash: A Machiavellian politics of
religion
Jan Waszink (Rotterdam), The Tacitism of Lipsius and its Grotian echos
20.30
Dinner
Saturday 26 November
9.30-11.00
Merio Scattola (Padua), Machiavelli, Grotius and natural law
Martin van Gelderen (Florence), Grotius on commerce, civilisation and the seas
11.30-13.00
Mark Somos (Sussex/Berlin), Petrus Cunaeus and Machiavellian politics in the Old
Testament
Lea Boralevi (Florence), 'Lex agraria' from Cunaeus to Harrington
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-16.30
Paul van Heck (Leiden), Machiavelli in the Republic: books, translations, interpretations
Arthur Weststeijn (Rome), Machiavelli in Dutch colonial ideology
Michel Reinders (Rotterdam), Johan de Witt, Machiavelli and the people
17.00-18.30
Hans Blom (Potsdam), Mandeville, Machiavellian critic of Spinoza
Koen Stapelbroek (Rotterdam), Trade, treaties and political virtue: the Machiavellian
legacy at the end of the Republic
18.30-19.00
Joris van Eijnatten (Utrecht), Concluding remarks