REASON OF STATE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR: AN UNKNOWN TRANSLATION BY THOMAS HOBBES; ED. BY NOEL MALCOLM

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of reason of state. Contents 6 Preface 8 A Note on Dates and Transcriptions 10 1. Hobbes’s Early Career 12 2. The Translation: Authorship, Date, and Style 27 3. The ‘Secretissima instructio’ Texts 41 4. The Distribution of the Altera secretissima instructio in England 72 5. Palatine Politics: Cavendish, Mansfield, and Hobbes 85 6. ‘Reason of State’ and Hobbes 103 Hobbes’s Translation of Altera secretissima instructio 135 Altera secretissima instructio 136 List of Manuscripts 211 Bibliography 215 Index 232 A 232 B 232 C 232 D 233 E 234 F 234 G 234 H 234 I 235 J 235 K 235 L 235 M 236 N 236 O 236 P 236 Q 237 R 237 S 237 T 237 U 238 V 238 W 238 X 238 Y 238 Z 238 "Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes: a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in 17th century history"--P. [4] of cover. "Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes: a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in 17th century history"--Page 4 of cover IN a volume of the papers of William Cavendish, first Earl of Newcastle, there is a text in English entitled 'A second most secret instruction Gallo-britanno-batauian, giuen to Fredericke the V. Translated out of Low Dutch into Latine, and diuulged for th