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Machiavelli: The Prince
About this book
This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers on statecraft and political morality have found impossible to ignore. Quentin Skinner's introduction offers a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text both as a response to the world of Florentine politics and as a critical engagement with the classical and Renaissance genre of advice-books for princes. This new edition also features an improved timeline of key events in Machiavelli's life, helping the reader place the work in the context of its time, in addition to an enlarged and fully updated bibliography.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Editorial Note
- Introduction
- Principal Events in Machiavelliās Life
- Bibliographical Note
- Translatorās Note
- Note on the Text
- Maps
- The Prince
- Dedicatory Letter: Niccolò Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo deā Medicia
- Appendix A Letters Relevant to The Prince
- Appendix B Notes on the Vocabulary of The Prince
- Biographical Notes
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Proper Names