The Prince
(Oxford World's Classics)
By Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella (Translator), Maurizio Viroli (Preface)




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Book Description
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
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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)
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- English Books
- Paperback 186 Pages
- ISBN-10: 019280426X
- ISBN-13: 9780192804266
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Pub date: Feb 04, 2005
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Leather Bound, Board Book, Unbound, Others and eBook
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Here you can read the complete text:
http://ilmachiavelli.interfree.it/translate_english/mac…
translated by W. K. Marriott
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