The Prince: Newly Translated and Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens)
Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
ISBN: 9781847493231
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 12 Sep 2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago.
ISBN: 9781847493231
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 12 Sep 2013
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback / softback
At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The Prince, a classic study of power and politics, and a manual of ruthlessness for any ambitious ruler. Controversial in his own time, The Prince made Machiavelli's name a byword for manipulative scheming, and had an impact on such major figures as Napoleon and Frederick the Great. It contains principles as true today as when they were first written almost five centuries ago.