The prince

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The work The prince represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The prince

Statement of responsibility

Niccolò Machiavelli ; translated and edited by Peter Bondanella ; with an introduction by Maurizio Viroli

Creator

• Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527

Contributor

• Bondanella, Peter E., 1943-
• Viroli, Maurizio

Editor

• Bondanella, Peter E., 1943-

Translator

• Bondanella, Peter E., 1943-

Subject

• Political ethics
• Political science -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

'When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's firsthand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which mean seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality. His book provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised"--

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• Principe
• Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

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Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

195-MAC

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Language note

Translated from the Italian

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford world's classics