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"This is the first book in English to take Cicero's forensic speeches seriously as acts of advocacy, i.e. as designed to ensure that the person he represents in acquitted or that the person he is prosecuting is found guilty. It seeks to set the speeches within the context of the…
Niccolo Machiavelli is misunderstood, argues Jonathan Powell in his 21st-century reworking of the Italian philosopher's influential masterpiece, 'The Prince'. Taking the lessons Machiavelli derived from his experience as an official in 15th-century Florence, Powell shows how the…