Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings

Niccolo Machiavelli, David Wootton

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 1994
• Print ISBN: 9780872202474
• eBook ISBN: 9781603845380
• Topic: Philosophie
• Subtopic: Philosophie médiévale et de la Renaissance

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice. (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli does just that when the occasion demands: renderings of that most problematic of words, virtu, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• FURTHER READING
• LETTER TO VETTORI, 10 December 1513
• THE PRINCE
• Selections from THE DISCOURSES
• Book Two
• Book Three
• Back Cover