En av världslitteraturens stora klassiker om maktens villkorNär Niccolò Machiavelli i början av 1500-talet skrev sitt mest berömda verk förnyade han radikalt en ärevördig medeltida genre: »furstespegeln«. I stället för att som brukligt glorifiera re…
Machiavellis Fursten har aldrig upphört att fascinera och förbrylla. Här presenterar Mikael Persbrandts röst idéerna om maktens mekanismer och om hur en stat ska styras. Machiavelli analyserar de krafter som får människor att underkasta sig makten o…
Machiavellis mångbottnade och ständigt aktuella verk, Fursten, har aldrig upphört att fascinera och förbrylla. Här presenterar Machiavelli sina idéer om maktens mekanismer och om hur en stat ska styras. Han analyserar de krafter som får människor at…
As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able to observe firsthand the lives of people strongly united under one powerful ruler. His fascination with that political rarity…
Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today as i…
Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics. As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickl…
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Born in Florence in 1469, Niccolo Machiavelli was one of the principal secretaries to the Signoria at Florence and undertook diplomatic missions to various courts, before his imprisonment and exile. To quote his own words, this book discusses "what…
At the end of an industrious political career in conflictriven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Contr…
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'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.'When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power w…
The Prince is one of the first works of political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. Written by by the Italian diplomat, historian andpolitical theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, the treatise i…
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (O…
With a mix of both respectable and immoral advice, The Prince is a frank analysis on political power. Separated into four sections, The Prince is both a guide to obtain power and an explanation on the aspects that affect it. The first section discus…
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From his correspondence, a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities)…
What makes this well-annotated translation stand out from others is an insightful introduction by editor Thomas G. Bergin especially helpful for achieving a better understanding of the times and the political scene in which Machiavelli worked, lived…
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Niccol Machiavelli Machiavelli has created a ruthless guide on how to rule the country in his volume "The Prince." The book is dedicated to Lorenzo De Medici, the ruler of Florence. The author explains in simple language about the nature of great me…
Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, The Prince is Machiavelli's classic analysis of statesmanship and power. "It is best to be both feared and loved, however, if one cannot be both, it is better to be feared than loved."--Machiavelli For ove…
A classic study of statemanship and power politics, The Prince is one of the most influential books ever written. Used by businessmen and political leaders through the ages, Machiavellis shrewd and insightful text presents strategies that some of hi…
Written in the 16th century, The Prince remains one of the most influential books on political theory. Its author, Niccolo Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and political theorist, and is considered the father of modern political thought.
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The lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. A Prince must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.Discover the etymology behind the common description of "Machiavellian" to describe deception, d…
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Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" is intended to be a treatise on ruling and is considered by many to be a classic of political science. In the book Machiavelli offers many bits of practical advice on how to rule and even though the book was writte…
That Machiavelli's name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince--the world's preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power and one of the literary landmarks…
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of Machiavelli's political treatise entitled, "The Prince" (1532). The work notably advocates the power of human action and free will - unusual ethical concepts in the political landscape of Flor…
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. It is indispensable to scholars, students, and those interested in the dark art of politics. Widely…
"It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both." -Niccol Machiavelli, The Prince, 1503 Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli wrote his best-known work The Prince (1513), a short political treatise based on his experience…
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Florentine statesman, writer, and political theorist, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) considered The Art of War his most important work. Five centuries later, after serving as a guide to Frederick the Great, Napoleon, and countless other military lea…
Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and as a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been defended and applauded as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is rather than as it ought to be. In this edition…
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Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c.1517) shows a radi…
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Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "pro…
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When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the afo…
he end justifies the means. This simple, pragmatic maxim underpins Niccol Machiavelli's classic work, The Prince. Written in 1513, when Machiavelli was a Florentine registry official, this handbook of political power provoked controversy like no oth…
Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. A founder of modern political science, 1] he was a civil servant of theFlo…
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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that the aims of princes-such as glory and survival-can justif…
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The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist, Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities)…
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"The Prince" (Italian: "Il Principe") is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, "De Principati…
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Machiavelli cut his political teeth during the Renaissance, a time of intense hatred between Italian city states. Machiavelli was a man of action, a devout patriot. He wrote The Prince to describe how a leader could unite Italy and put a stop to the…
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Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years…
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From his perspective in Renaissance Italy, Machiavelli's aim in this classic work was to resolve conflict with the ruling prince, Lorenzo de Medici. Machiavelli based his insights on the way people really are rather than an ideal of how they should…
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus.
The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the…
With "The Prince", Machiavelli made his name synonymous with intrigue and cunning for all time. His instructions to the Prince, on achieving and maintaining power, by any and all means available, became the archetypical philosophy of 'The Ends Justi…
"The Prince" shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for…
Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machia…
Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with t…
"It is safer to be feared than loved." These words embody the spirit of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy. Machiavelli's advice for how a ruler should acquire and ruthlessly exercise power over others continues t…
Includes in their entirety The Prince, The Discourses, Belfagor, The Mandrake Root, Castruccio Castracani, abridged versions of The Art of War and The History of Florence, and a bibliography and chronology
Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and disci…
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Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to be feared than loved...' The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional m…
Includes notes, a 2-page map, an index, and an Introduction, this edition is useful for students of history and political theory.
A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandon…
This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolo Machiavelli is arguably the most famous an…
The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli. The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's…
The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccol Machiavelli.The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's p…
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which…
The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). Ho…
"He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation." -Machiavelli, "Chapter 15," The Prince The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccol Machi…
Machiavelli's best-known book, Il Principe, contains a number of maxims concerning politics, but rather than the more traditional subject of a hereditary prince, it concentrates on the possibility of a "new prince". To retain power, the hereditary p…
Il Principe (The Prince) is the famous text by Florentine public servant Niccolo Machiavelli, in which he outlines the best strategy by which a prince can acquire, maintain and protect his state. Published posthumously, the text departs from his pre…
All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities. Principalities are either hereditary, in which the family has been long established; or they are new. The new are either entirely new…
Written during the tumultuous Renaissance period, 'The Prince' is Niccolo Machiavelli's best known work on the problems of government. Considered one of the first modern works on statecraft, it is a foundational text for western civilization and had…
"Så kom det endelig. Machiavellis hovedværk, som desværre nok må siges at være forholdsvis ukendt i dansk sammenhæng. De fleste forbinder i realiteten florentineren Niccolò di Bernardo Machiavelli (1469–1527) med et helt andet klassisk værk, n…
En av världslitteraturens stora klassiker om maktens villkor När Niccolò Machiavelli i början av 1500-talet skrev sitt mest berömda verk förnyade han radikalt en ärevördig medeltida genre: »furstespegeln«. I stället för att som brukligt glorifiera r…
A compilation of writings by the influential Renaissance philosopher features a number of essays that have never before appeared in English--including "The Persecution of Africa" and "A Warning to the Medici Faction"--as well as The Prince, The Mand…
Även i sina personliga brev framstår Niccolò Machiavelli som en lysande stilist och breven är alltid fängslande.I ett av breven skildrar han hur han skeptiskt lyssnar till Savonarolas botpredikningar, och i ett annat hur han, efter att ha fått lämna…
Laid out in this book is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince, a king or a president.…
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One of the most influential books on statecraft ever written, Niccol Machiavelli's 1532 treatise The Prince invented modern political philosophy and gave the world the term 'Machiavellian.' It was famously read by Spain's King Charles V and King Hen…
Bench si tratti dell'unico lavoro storico-politico dell'autore pubblicato mentre questi era ancora in vita, un libro meno letto e conosciuto del Principe, uscito postumo. L'opera scritta, nello stile del dialogo, con lo scopo, dichiarato in principi…
Dell'arte della guerra un'opera di Niccol Machiavelli scritta tra il 1519 e il 1520 e pubblicata l'anno seguente. Bench si tratti dell'unico lavoro storico-politico dell'autore pubblicato mentre questi era ancora in vita, un libro meno letto e conos…
"Istorie fiorentine - Libro IV" from Niccol Machiavelli. Storico, scrittore, drammaturgo, politico e filosofo italiano (1469-1527).
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"Hanno, Lorenzo, molti tenuto, e tengono questa opinione, che e' non sia cosa alcuna che minore convenienza abbia con un'altra, n che sia tanto dissimile, quanto la vita civile dalla militare".
Features translations of "The Woman From Andros"; "The Mandrake"; and "Clizia", a work inspired by Plautus' "Casin". This work explores English plays whose racy vernacular language, subtle characterisation, and innovative dramatic construction prece…
When you want to read in both Italian and English, though, there's a great option: bilingual books Reading bilingual books and inferring the vocabulary and grammar is a far superior method of language learning than traditional memorization. It is al…
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