The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli, Luigi Ricci (Translator), Christian Gauss (Introduction)

Overview

A new edition of the classic THE PRINCE. A political treatise by the Florentine political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451627551
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/01/1952
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	4.06(w) x 6.84(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Like Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli is considered a typical example of the Renaissance Man. He is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, written 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. Although he privately circulated The Prince among friends, the only work he published in his life was The Art of War, about high-military science. Since the sixteenth century, generations of politicians remain attracted and repelled by the cynical approach to power posited in The Prince and his other works. Whatever his personal intentions, which are still debated today, his surname yielded the modern political word Machiavellianism-the use of cunning and deceitful tactics in politics or in general.

Table of Contents

Introduction		ix	(8)
Translators' Note to this Edition		xvii	(2)
Select Bibliography		xix	(4)
A Chronology of Niccolo Machiavelli		xxiii
THE PRINCE		1	(88)
Explanatory Notes		89

Editorial Reviews

"A superb translation; with an excellent, sensible introduction."—Michael Altschul, Case Western Reserve University

"Bondanella's 'Introduction' is excellent; also, the fine translation offers much for the humanity student."—Darlene J. Alberts, Ohio Dominican College

"Every leader in the third world should read this and be advised by it."—Godwin C. Duru, Ohio Dominican College

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