Abbreviations; Translator's Introduction: Unscripted Space, Devoured Time; Translator's Note and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Machiavelli in Spinoza's Library and Texts; 2. Machiavelli's Implicit Presence in Spinoza's Texts; 3. Causality and Temporality Between Machiavelli and Spinoza; 4. Machiavelli and Spinoza: Theory of the Individual as Antiphilosophy of History; Conclusion.