Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Facsimiles: Cover Pages of 1526 and 1538 Editions -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Sigla -- Text and Translation -- Letter to Pope Adrian VI -- First Letter to Henry VIII -- Second Letter to Henry VIII -- De Europae dissidiis et bello Turcico -- Letter to Cardinal Wolsey -- Isocrates, Areopagiticus: Vives’s Latin Version -- Isocrates, Nicocles: Vives’s Latin Version -- Letter to John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Isocrates, Areopagiticus and Nicocles: Facsimiles of the Greek 1513 Edition -- Indexes.

The De Europae dissidiis et republica ( On Conflicts in Europe and on the Commonwealth ) is a collection published by Vives in 1526 that has been called his “summa politica.” It contains five letters, to Henry VIII and three prelates including Cardinal Wolsey; a Lucian-style underworld satire on European wars and the Turkish threat; and Latinizations of two political speeches by Isocrates. It counsels the pursuit of peace following Christian principles, but it also explores the possibility of an aggressive war against the Turks as the means of unifying and saving European Christendom. It urges the calling of a council to deal with Luther. We present critical Latin texts and, for the first time, English translations, with introduction and notes.