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Bibliographical essay 515Monarchomachs: Huguenots and CatholicsJaszi and Lewis, Against The Tyrant; and J.W. Allen, A History ofPoliticalThought in the Sixteenth Century (1928, 2nd ed., London: Methuen & Co.,1957), serve as useful introductions to the extensive literature on this subject.Skinner, Foundations, Vol. II, is excellent on the Huguenots and Buchanan.No one should neglect the only book in English on the Catholic League:Frederic J. Baumgartner, Radical Reactionaries: The Political Thought oftheFrench Catholic League (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1976).Absolutism and Italian humanismThe best discussion of the political theory of the Italian humanists and itsrelation to absolutism is in Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of ModernPolitical Thought, Volume One: The Renaissance (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1968). On Diomede Carafa, see Schumpeter, History ofEconomic Analysis, pp. 162-4. On Leon Battista degli Alberti and the Albertifamily, see Raymond de Roover, 'The Story of the Alberti Company ofFlorence, 1302-1348, As Revealed in Its Account Books', in Business, Bankingand Economic Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974),pp.39-84.The clearest and most illuminating discussion of Machiavelli is in Skinner,Foundations, Volume One. Also see Isaiah Berlin, 'The Originality ofMachiavelli', in M.P. Gilmore (ed), Studies on Machiavelli (Florence: G.C.Sansoni, 1972), pp. 147-206.Absolutism in FranceA highly lucid study of absolutist thought in France in the sixteenth centuryis William Farr Church, Constitutional Thought in Sixteenth-Century France:A Study in the Evolution ofIdeas (1941, New York: Octagon Books, 1969).Church is particularly good on the absolutists after Bodin. On the influenceof humanism in France and on French absolutist thought in general also seethe excellent Skinner, Foundations, Vols I and II. These should be supplementedby the broader study of French political thought in Nannerl O.Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980). Keohane isparticularly perceptive on Bodin.On Montaigne, also see Donald Frame, Montaigne: A Biography (NewYork: Harcourt Brace & World, 1965). On Occitan, see Meic Stephens,Linguistic Minorities in Western Europe (Llandysul, Dyfed, Wales: GomerPress, 1976), pp. 297-308. The literature on the Montaigne fallacy and mercantilismis, surprisingly, virtually non-existent. The classical, though brief,statement is in Heckscher, Mercantilism, I, 26. The implications are developedin Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (3rd rev.