Original publication: Pugliese, Olga Zorzi. “Machiavelli and Confraternities: A Sermon to the Brethren and a Parody of Their Statutes.” Confraternitas 19 (2): 2010. 3-10. DOI: 10.33137/confrat.v19i2.12430. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Confraternitas. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Confraternitas under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.