Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince
Here is the world’s most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...a king...a president.
When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. The prince he envisioned...

Written after 1513's "The Prince," Niccolo Machiavelli's war treatise, "The Art of War", is a dazzling array of war tactics and strategies based on the military strength of the Romans. Machiavelli wrote "The Art of War" as a dialogue between a group of young men in the Florentine republic. The main narrator, Lord Fabrizio Colonna, is the voice of knowledge and wisdom. The others ask questions about military tactics, and Fabrizio gives them advice...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In Florentine History Machiavelli wrote about his native city, which he loved with a passion-more than his soul, he said-and by which he was exasperated. He was not just the famously cold, ironic analyst of ruthless power politics, evident in much of his most famous work, The Prince; he had a fervent sense of the common good and how that might be achieved in a republic....

"Discourses on Livy", which was first published posthumously in 1531, is Niccolo Machiavelli's analysis of the first ten books of Livy's monumental work of Roman History, which details the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BC. Machiavelli believed that by examining the exemplary greatness in Roman history, practical lessons could be applied to the politics of the present day. The Italian renaissance was causing people...

Niccolo Machiavellis berühmtes Buch vom Fürsten ist eines der ersten der modernen politischen Philosophie. Er beschreibt darin Wege zur Erlangung und zum Erhalt politischer Macht. Aufgrund des darin vertretenen radikalen, amoralischen und rein am Erfolg orientierten Zweckrationalismus ist das Werk seit seinem Erscheinen höchst umstritten und war zeitweise sogar verboten.

This book contains Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli's 1532 historical account, "History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy". A fascinating history of Florence by one of the most celebrated and accomplished political minds in history, this volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in Italian history and Machiavelli's seminal work. Many vintage books such as this had been becoming increasingly scarce or expensive. This volume is now...

4 Books by Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War, The Prince, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Levius, History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy.