The prince

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"This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince -- revised for the first time after 30 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 introductio…

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Full title :The prince / Machiavelli ; edited by Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary University of London and Russell Price, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Lancaster, 1933-2011.

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"This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince -- revised for the first time after 30 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 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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019
Edition:Second edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xli, 156 pages : : map ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107145863, 1107145864, 9781316509265, 1316509265
oclc:on1083692173
LC Classification:JC143
Dewey Decimal:320.1

Introduction -- Dedicatory letter: Niccolò Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de' Medici. How many kinds of principality there are, and by what means they are acquired ; Hereditary principalities ; Mixed principalities ; Why the Kingdom of Darius, which Alexander occupied, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death ; By what means cities or provinces that lived under their own laws before they were occupied ought to be administered ; New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability ; New principalities acquired through the arms and fortune of others ; Those who become rulers through crime ; The civil principality ; In what ways the strengths of all principalities should be measured ; Ecclesiastical principalities ; How many kinds of soldiers there are, and mercenary troops ; Auxiliaries, mixed troops and one's own troops ; How a ruler should act concerning military matters ; The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed ; Liberality and parsimony ; Cruelty and mercifulness; and Whether it is better to be loved or feared, or the contrary ; In what way rulers should keep their promises ; How contempt and hatred should be avoid…

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Early works État -- Ouvrages avant 1800 Machiavelli, Niccolò Morale politique Morale politique -- Ouvrages avant 1800 Political ethics Political ethics -- Early works to 1800 Political science Political science -- Early works to 1800 Political science -- Early works to 180… Political science -- Philosophy Principe (Machiavelli, Niccolò) Science politique -- Ouvrages avant 1800 State State, The State, The -- Early works to 1800