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For this treatise on statecraft the author drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life.Read More

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    The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) came to be regarded as some by an agent of the Devil and his name taken for the intriguer 'Machevill' of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideals but with a regime that would last "The Prince" has become the Bible of realpolitik and still retains its power to alarm and to instruct.

  • Blackwell

    Drawing upon his own experiences of political office in the turbulent Florentine republic, Machiavelli wrote what would become his celebrated treatise on statecraft. Includes a chronology and map. The Prince shocked Europe on publication with...

  • Penguin

    'One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves' The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality.

  • Pickabook

    Niccolo Machiavelli, George Bull (Trans), Anthony Grafton

  • 0140449159
  • 9780140449150
  • Niccolo Machiavelli, George Bull
  • 8 May 2003
  • Longman
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 144
  • 1
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