The Prince, 2nd Edition
Second Edition
$17.04
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1998
Summary
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. Harvey C. Mansfield’s brilliant translation of this classic work, along with the new materials added for this …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226500447 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226500446 |
| Author: | Niccolò Machiavelli, Harvey C. Mansfield |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 13mm x 21mm |
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a diplomat, politician, and philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. Modern political philosophy and political science is founded on Machiavelli’s writings. He served for many years as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. When the Medicis came to power, he was imprisoned and then retired to the writing of his works of political philosophy.
Harvey C. Mansfield is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Machiavelli’s Virtue and has translated The Prince, Discourses on Livy (with Nathan Tarcov), and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (with Delba Winthrop).
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