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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

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 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

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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 las... 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

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

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

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

There have been many political philosophies published throughout the time of literate man, but few have made such an impact in so few words as Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. This eminently quotable treatise on the nature of rulers is unsettling in that it does not merely discuss... 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

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A timeless guide... Read Full Overview