the World. He commented that they had both been "outed" in a book published about the Apostles some time before. On 6 October 1995, Skinner's Foundations of Modern Political Thought was included in the list published by The Times Literary Supplement of 'The 100 Most Influential Books since World War II'. On 14 May 2009, Times Higher Education, in an article about Skinner's move from Cambridge to the University of London, spoke of Skinner's republicanism, reporting that this led him to refuse a knighthood he was offered when he became Regius Professor of History at Cambridge. The Balzan-Skinner Lectureship, renamed the "Quentin Skinner Fellowship in Intellectual History since 1500", was established in 2009 at the University of Cambridge. The Quentin Skinner fellow holds a visiting fellowship at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities for one term of the academic year, which culminates in the Quentin Skinner Lecture and an associated symposium. Principal publications Books 1. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume I: The Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 1978. (Translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish.) 2. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: Volume II: The Age of Reformation, Cambridge University Press, 1978. (Translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.) 3(a). Machiavelli, Oxford University Press, 1981. 3(b). Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction [A revised version of 3(a)], Oxford University Press, 2000. (Translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Polish, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.) 3(c). Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction [a new and updated edition of 3(b)], Oxford University Press, 2019. 4. Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes, Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese.) 5. Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Translated into Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.) 6. Visions of Politics: Volume I: Regarding Method, Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Translated into Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish.) 7. Visions of Politics: Volume II: Renaissance Virtues (with 12 colour plates), Cambridge University Press, 2002. (Translated into Italian.) 8. Visions of Politics: Volume III: Hobbes and Civil Science, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 9. L’artiste en philosophie politique (with 8 colour plates), Editions de Seuil, Paris, 2003. 10. Hobbes and Republican Liberty (with 19 illustrations), Cambridge University Press, 2008. (Translated