WORKS OF REFERENCE RELATING TO THE SECTION 

 OF DIPLOMACY 



(Prepared through courtesy of David Jayne Hitt, LL.D.) 



No general bibliography of this subject can be attempted here, but the follow- 

 ing special indications may be found useful: 



I. The classic conception of diplomacy dates from the time of Machiavelli, 

 whose work II Principe, published in 1532, is an exposition of the theory of a 

 successful state as conceived by Machiavelli and his Italian contemporaries. 

 See, in addition to this work, translated by Detmold under the title of The 

 Prince, London, 1882, for the life of Machiavelli, Villari, Niccolo Machiavelli 

 e i suoi tempi, Florence, 1877, translated by Linda Villari, London and New 

 York, 1892; for the diplomacy of his time, De Maul de-la-Clavi ere, La diplomatic 

 au temps de Machiavel, Paris, 1892; for the literature, expository and critical, 

 Mohl, Geschichte und Literatur der Staatswissenschaft, Erlangen, 1855; and for 

 the influence of Machiavelli, Ferrari, Machiavel juge des revolutions de notre temps, 

 Paris, 1849; Mundt, Machiavelli und der Gang der europdischen Politik, Leipzig, 

 1853, and Symonds, The Age of the Despots, London, 1902. 



The more modern form of the classic conception of diplomacy may be found 

 in Bielfeld, Institutions politiques, The Hague, 1760; Ancillon, Tableau des 

 revolutions du systcme politigue de I' Europe, Paris, 1823; De Garden, Traite 

 complet de diplomatic, Paris, 1833; and Tableau de la diplomatic, Paris, no date. 



II. On the relations of diplomacy to history, special references are hardly 

 practicable, owing partly to the great mass of details and to their technical 

 character. Some idea of the labor already expended upon the Archives of Ven- 

 ice, so important for the history of diplomacy, may be obtained from Toderini 

 and Cecchetti, L'archivio di stato in Venezia nel decennio 1866-1875, Venice, 

 1876; and of the historical value of the Papal Archives, hitherto imperfectly 

 explored, from Gachard, Les archives du Vatican, Brussels, 1874, compared with 

 the use subsequently made of them. The examples cited, De"prez, Les prelimi- 

 naires de la guerre de cent ans, Paris, 1902, and Pelissier, Louis XII et Ludovic 

 Sforza, Paris, 1896, published in the Bibliotheque des Ecoles francnises d'Athenes 

 et de Rome, are intended only to illustrate the class of work lately done, and 

 still remaining to be done, with these sources. 



For the general history of modern diplomacy may be named Stoffela D'Alta 

 Rupe, Abrege de I'histoire diplomatique de I' Europe, Vienna, 1888; Debidour, 

 Histoire diplomatique de I' Europe, Paris, 1891; Malet, Histoire diplomatique 

 de I' Europe aux XV He et XV Hie siecles, Paris, 1894; and Bourgeois, Manuel 

 historique de politique etrangere, Paris, 1897. The last three contain biblio- 

 graphies. 



III. On the relation of diplomacy to jurisprudence, besides the standard works 

 on jurisprudence and international law, see Ward, An Enquiry into the Founda- 

 tion and History of the Law of Nations in Europe, London, 1795; Wheaton, 

 History of the Law of Nations in Europe and America, New York, 1845, translated 

 into French, Leipzig and Paris, 1846; Hosack, Rise and Growth of the Law of 

 Nations, London, 1882; Walker, A History of the Law of Nations, Cambridge, 

 1899; De la Gue"ronniere, Le droit public et I'Europe moderne, Paris, 1876. 



For the International Tribunal at The Hague, see Holls, The Peace Conference 

 at The Hague, New York, 1900; Foster, Arbitration and The Hague Court, Boston 

 1904; Descamps, M ('moire sur le fonctionnement du premier tribunal d' arbitrage 

 constituc au sein de la Cour Permanente de, La Haye, Lou vain, 1903; Penfield, 



