The Prince

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  Here you can read the complete text:

  http://machiavelli.letteraturaoperaomnia.org/translate_…

  translated by W. K. Marriott

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  Letteratura OperaOmnia said on Jan 9, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  A manual

  The Prince is a manual. It tells the ambitious leader how to gain maintain and centralize power. Once this power is established there is nothing in Machiavelli's view to prevent from developing just and free institutions. What is involved here, of course, is the whole question of means and ends, and ... (continue)

  The Prince is a manual. It tells the ambitious leader how to gain maintain and centralize power. Once this power is established there is nothing in Machiavelli's view to prevent from developing just and free institutions. What is involved here, of course, is the whole question of means and ends, and Machiavelli does not resolve the problem. And one could say that the politics of European nationalisms have been guided by this icy, terrifyingly intelligent book of instruction, well worth reading.

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  Antonio Gallo said on Nov 12, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Intelligent, easy to read and comprising ideas which make really common sense, the father of realpolitik is a must read, as the strategies can even be applied at the workplace!

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  shazzpezzazz said on Dec 2, 2006 | Add your feedback

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  My favourite part about this book is how Machiavelli takes a practical approach; talking about things as they really are rather than an ideal. This idealization of a prince I've read, is how the subject was handled before Machiavelli.

  I'm not saying that I condone evil actions by a prince, only tha ... (continue)

  My favourite part about this book is how Machiavelli takes a practical approach; talking about things as they really are rather than an ideal. This idealization of a prince I've read, is how the subject was handled before Machiavelli.

  I'm not saying that I condone evil actions by a prince, only that Machiavelli describes what based on the evidence he believes is effective and not effective, whether or not that is labelled evil or good.

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  audioreader said on May 22, 2012 | Add your feedback

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  Happy I read it because I think it is an important part of history but found it a bit tedious!!!

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  Shelly Mae said on Jul 30, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  simply put, since I know no Italian, this is the most readable version of the Prince I could ever find, with a reasonable price, too.

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  ikjeng said on Sep 8, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 128 Pages
• Edition: Rev Ed
• ISBN-10: 0141018852
• ISBN-13: 9780141018850
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Sep 02, 2004
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