Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Introduction -- Introduction: Towards a More Balanced View of Justus Lipsius's Political Writings and Their Influence -- Part I General Tendencies -- Exempla, Prudence and Casuistry in Renaissance Political Discourse -- History and Exemplarity in the Work of Lipsius -- Stoicism in Political Humanism and Natural Law -- Part II Rhetorics, History and Exemplarity -- Monita et exempla politica as Example of a Genre -- Rhetoric and Exemplarity in Justus Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica -- Justus Lipsius and the Challenge of Historical Exemplarity -- Justus Lipsius and the Cento Form -- Part III Virtues and Politics -- Fate and Rule, Destiny and Dynasty: Lipsius's Final Views on Superstition, Fate and Divination in the Monita et exempla politica (1605) -- The Clementia Lipsiana: Political Analysis, Autobiography and Panegyric -- Prudence in Lipsius's Monita et exempla politica: Stoic Virtue, Aristotelian Virtue or not a Virtue at All? -- Secret Compensation: A Friendly and Lawful Alternative to Lipsius's Political Thought -- Part IV Lipsius's Heritage -- Carolus Scribani and the Lipsian Legacy. The Politico-Christianus and Lipsius's Image of the Good Prince -- A Lipsian Legacy? Neo-Absolutism, Natural Law and the Decline of Reason of State in France 1660-1760 -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum.