The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli ; translated and edited by Peter Bondanella ; with an introduction by Maurizio Viroli.

By:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527

Contributor(s):

Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (420 unnumbered pages) : mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191516818
0191516813
9780192804266
019280426X
9786610752959
6610752958

Uniform titles:

Principe. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prince.DDC classification:

320.01

LOC classification:

JC143 .M38 2005eb

Other classification:

MC 4151

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Contents:

A chronology of Niccolò Machiavelli -- Map of Italy c.1500 -- The Prince.

Summary: Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The Prince: "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 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 the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality. His book provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that considers the true purpose of The Prince and dispels some of the myths associated with it.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages xlii-xlix) and index.

Translated from the Italian.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2018).

Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The Prince: "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 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 the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality. His book provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that considers the true purpose of The Prince and dispels some of the myths associated with it.

A chronology of Niccolò Machiavelli -- Map of Italy c.1500 -- The Prince.

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