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.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781316509265 Number of pages: 202 Weight: 290 g Dimensions: 215 x 137 x 11 mm Edition: 2nd Revised edition You may also be interested in. Niccol Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. This new 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. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli, Quentin Skinner.

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. 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 and Maurizio Viroli Chapter Get access Share Cite Summary If there is a single point on which scholars have reached a wide consensus, it is that Machiavelli created a new theory or a new science of politics. Niccolo Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner.

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