That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince – the world’s pre-eminent how-to manual o...
Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prince (Il Principe), written in 1513. He has often b...
"It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both." -Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1503 Italian philosopher and diplomat Machiavelli wrote...
If any book could be called legendary, surely it is this one. Its author, Italian diplomat and philosopher NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI (1469-1527) considered it his greatest work. Indeed, his thoughts on p...
Adagio's version of The Prince, wonderfully translated by Luigi Ricci, has been lightly edited for clarity and easier reading for the American English audience.&nbs...
Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist who wrote this book sometime around 1513. In 1512 the Medici's came to power and he lost his post in Florence. It is bel...
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 an...
"The Prince" shocked Europe in the sixteenth century-clearly describing and analyzing the tactics used haphazardly by rulers of the day. His advice has been studied and heeded ever since, and is s...
Today The Pronce is still seen as the Bible of realpolitik, read by strategists, businessmen and political animals everywhere as the ultimate guide to gaining and maintaining power in a dangerous w...
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 i...
Niccolò 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 tur...