Machiavelli

  • Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
    By Ross King

    The author of The Prince—his controversial handbook on power, which is one of the most influential books ever written—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was no prince himself.

  • Machiavelli
    By Lucio Villari

    Lucio Villari affronta i momenti fondamentali del pensiero di Machiavelli, le scritture letterarie, la vicenda umana. Una narrazione avvincente nel drammatico scenario del Cinquecento fiorentino, italiano, europeo.

  • Machiavelli: A Biography
    By Miles J. Unger

    Examines the life of the Florentine intellectual, his relationships with contemporaries ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Cesare Borgia and Pope Alexander VI, his philosophies about power, and the legacy of "The Prince."

  • Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
    By Patrick Boucheron

    If the book endeavors to dissociate political action from common morality, the question still remains today, not why, but for whom Machiavelli wrote. For princes, or for those who want to resist them?

  • Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Vol. I
    By Nicollò di Bernado dei Machiavelli

    From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion.

  • Machiavelli
    By Christopher Celenza

    Christopher Celenza’s portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient history, comic playwright, tireless letter writer, and thwarted lover.

  • Machiavelli
    By Robert Black

    Machiavelli is history's most startling political commentator. Recent interpreters have minimised his originality, but this book restores his radicalism. Robert Black shows a clear development in Machiavelli's thought.

  • Machiavelli: enciclopedia machiavelliana
    By Gennaro Sasso

    Machiavelli: enciclopedia machiavelliana

  • Machiavelli: A Beginner's Guide
    By Cary J. Nederman

    Liberal thinker or immoral pragmatist? You decide… Machiavelli has been among the most commented upon, criticized and feared thinkers of the modern world.

  • Machiavelli
    By Maurizio Viroli

    This launch volume in the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents a critical examination of Machiavelli's thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with a re-assessment of his ...

  • Machiavelli: Der Fürst
    By Niccolò Machiavelli

    Machiavelli: Der Fürst

  • Machiavelli
    By Nicollo Machiavelli

    "Machiavellianism" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The Prince.

  • Machiavelli
    By Niccolò Machiavelli, Edmond Barincou

    Machiavelli

  • Machiavelli: From Radical to Reactionary
    By Robert Black

    From a leading expert on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, a superb overview of the pivotal Renaissance philosopher, writer, and historian. “Machiavellian” can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli ...

  • Machiavelli: The Prince
    By Niccolò Machiavelli

    This edition includes notes on the principal events in Machiavelli's life, and on the vocabulary of The Prince, as well as biographical notes on characters in the text.

  • Machiavelli: The Chief Works and Others, Vol. II
    By Nicollò di Bernado dei Machiavelli

    From praise for the 1965 edition: Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion.

  • Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
    By Ross King

    Ross King's Machiavelli visits fortune-tellers, produces wine on his Tuscan estate, travels Europe tirelessly on horseback as a diplomatic envoy, and is a passionate scholar of antiquity—but above all, a keen observer of human nature.

  • Machiavelli
    By Robert Black

    An intellectual biography of the 15th-century political scientist, showing the development in his thought from early subversive radicalism while an outcast from Florentine society to his later reconciliation with the establishment and more ...

  • Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology
    By Paul Oppenheimer

    All this unfolds in Paul Oppenheimer's compelling recreation of Machiavelli's life as he actually lived it.