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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.

The modern-day term "Machiavellian" is used to describe deception, dishonesty, and cruelty... Read Full Overview

The Prince by Niccol Machiavelli is one of the most influential works of political philosophy, leadership, power, and statecraft. Written during the Italian Renaissance, this enduring classic examines how rulers gain authority, maintain control, respond... Read Full Overview

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. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the... Read Full Overview

Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under... Read Full Overview

Un clásico eterno sobre el poder y la estrategia política ahora en español moderno, con toda la estructura y el significado del original preservados. Durante más de 500 años, *El príncipe* de Nicolás Maquiavelo ha sido una de las obras más influyentes y controvertidas jamás escritas... Read Full Overview

When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to... Read Full Overview

The most famous and important book on politics ever written

"This is an excellent, readable and vigorous translation of The Prince , but it is much more than simply a translation. The map, notes and guide to further reading are crisp, to-the-point and yet nicely comprehensive. The inclusion of the letter to Vettori is most welcome. But,... Read Full Overview

A new series of beautiful hardcover nonfiction classics, with covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Un clásico eterno sobre el poder y la estrategia política ahora en español moderno, con toda la estructura y el significado del original preservados. Durante más de 500 años, *El príncipe* de Nicolás Maquiavelo ha sido una de las obras más influyentes y controvertidas jamás escritas... Read Full Overview

This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccol Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the... Read Full Overview

El Pr ncipe (en italiano y originalmente: Il principe) es un tratado de teor a pol tica escrito por Nicol s Maquiavelo en 1513, mientras este se encontraba encarcelado en San Casciano por la acusaci n de haber conspirado en contra de los M dici. El libro fue publicado en 1531... Read Full Overview

Here 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 . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed... Read Full Overview

In his introduction to this new translation by Russell Price, Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response both to the world of Florentine politics, and as an attack on the advice-books for princes published by a number of his contemporaries... Read Full Overview

Esta es la obra m s conocida de Nicol s Maquiavelo. M s all de asuntos secundarios y casi ex ticos como el abuso del t rmino «maquiav lico para referirse a algo astuto o enga oso, tenemos aqu un tratado intachable, cuya vigencia en la actualidad resulta asombrosa, sobre... Read Full Overview

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 abandonment of conventional morality... Read Full Overview

'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 was posthumously published in... Read Full Overview

The most famous and important book on politics ever written

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Filho dos nobres florentinos Bernardo di Niccol? Machiavelli, um advogado de certa reputa??o, e sua esposa, Bartolomea di Stefano Nelli, Nicolau Maquiavel nasceu em Floren?a, no dia 03 de maio de 1469. Iniciou sua carreira no governo da Rep?blica... Read Full Overview

A guide for rulers. A mirror of ambition. A masterpiece that changed the way the world understands power.

Written in the early 16th century, The Prince remains one of the most influential works in political thought. In this bold and provocative treatise, Machiavelli... Read Full Overview

Trait politique crit au d but du XVIe si cle par Nicolas Machiavel, homme politique et crivain florentin, qui montre comment devenir prince et le rester, analysant des exemples de l'histoire antique et de l'histoire italienne de l' poque. Parce que l'ouvrage ne donnait pas... Read Full Overview

El pr ncipe es un tratado de doctrina pol tica, esta obra est dirigida a Lorenzo de M dici, conocido como 'el Magn fico', a quien Maquiavelo explica c mo actuar y qu hacer para unificar a Italia y sacarla de la crisis en que se encuentra.El pr ncipe nos hablar de las monarqu... Read Full Overview