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The Prince

(Oxford World's Classics)

By Niccolò Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella (Translator), Maurizio Viroli (Preface)

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| Paperback | 9780192804266

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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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Here you can read the complete text:
http://ilmachiavelli.interfree.it/translate_english/mac…
translated by W. K. Marriott

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Letteratura OperaOmnia said on Jan 9, 2011 | 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

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

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

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