The Prince: by Niccolo Machiavelli with Related Documents
ISBN: 9780312149789 | 0312149786
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 12/15/2004
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Widely read for its insights into history and politics,The Princeis one of the most provocative works of the Italian Renaissance. Based on Niccolo Machiavelli's observations of the effectiveness of both ancient and contemporary statesmen, the rules for governing set forth in his manual were considered radical and harsh by his contemporaries and shocking to many since then. This major new edition combines an accurate and accessible new translation with important related documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. In his l... MORE
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE
Introduction: The Puzzle of The Prince
An Extreme Book for Extreme Times
Humanists and Heretics
Machiavelli Before The Prince
The Prince's Prolonged and Difficult Birth
Dueling Machiavellis in Early Modern Europe: The Counselor to Tyrants a... MORE
Preface
PART ONE
Introduction: The Puzzle of The Prince
An Extreme Book for Extreme Times
Humanists and Heretics
Machiavelli Before The Prince
The Prince's Prolonged and Difficult Birth
Dueling Machiavellis in Early Modern Europe: The Counselor to Tyrants a... MORE
WILLIAM J. CONNELL, professor of history, holds the Joseph M. and Geraldine C. La Motta Chair in Italian Studies at Seton Hall University. He has also taught at Reed College and Rutgers University. A specialist in late medieval and early modern European history, he is the author of La città dei crucci: fazioni e clientele in uno stato repubblicano del ‘400 (2000), editor of Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence (2002), and coeditor of Florentine Tuscany: Structures and Practices of Power (2000). He has been a Fulbright Scholar, an I Tatti Fellow, and a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and since 1992 secretary of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
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