That Machiavelli's name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince-the world's preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its author's realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works.
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That Machiavelli's name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Princ...
This special edition of "The Art of War" by Machiavelli & "The Prince" by Machiavelli unites both of Machiavelli's renowned volumes on strategy together, so that the philosophy and mechanisms for obtaining power and managing power may be seen as a single entity. Possessed of a great intellect, Niccolo Machiavelli was uniquely suited to examine and explain the important details of statecraft. Machiavelli, like Plato, Pythagoras and Confucius two hundred odd decades before him, saw only one method by which a thinking man, himself not powerful, might do the work of state building, by...
This special edition of "The Art of War" by Machiavelli & "The Prince" by Machiavelli unites both of Machiavelli's renowned volumes on strategy togeth...
"Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, or in which they see him take most delight; whence one often sees horses, arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their greatness. Desiring therefore to present myself to your Magnificence with some testimony of my devotion towards you, I have not found among my possessions anything which I hold more dear than, or value so much as, the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in...
"Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, or in which ...
Niccolo Machiavelli Colin J. E. Lupton W. K. Marriott
A new edition of the highly exalted and infamous discourse containing observations and instructions on the significance of a rise to power. For nearly half a millennium, its logical and direct analysis of diplomacy, war-craft, and human nature has commanded a wise ruler in all who read it. No collection of political philosophy and history is complete without it.
A new edition of the highly exalted and infamous discourse containing observations and instructions on the significance of a rise to power. For nearl...
Macchiavelli (1469 - 1527) is sometimes considered the founder of modern politics and remembered for the extreme tactics advocated for maintaining power. This is a reprint of his work as translated by W. K. Marriott and published in 1908. This most notably includes "The Prince" and "Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliberotto Da Fermo, The Signor Paolo, and the Duke Di Gravina Orsini." This edition attempts to reproduce Marriott's translation including the spelling in the initial print.
Macchiavelli (1469 - 1527) is sometimes considered the founder of modern politics and remembered for the extreme tactics advocated for maintaining pow...
