Niccolò Machiavelli

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...

The Discourses on Livy (Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy) is a work of political history and philosophy composed in the early 16th century by the famed Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), best known as the author of The Prince. Where The Prince is devoted to advising the ruler of a principality, the Discourses purport to explain the structure and...

O Príncipe é uma obra clássica de teoria política escrita pelo filósofo e diplomata italiano Nicolau Maquiavel, publicada em 1532. Considerado um dos tratados políticos mais importantes da história, o livro oferece uma análise realista e pragmática sobre o poder, a liderança e o governo. Maquiavel escreveu O Príncipe em um momento de instabilidade política na Itália, com o objetivo de oferecer conselhos práticos aos governantes sobre...

Maurizio Viroli is professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University, professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, and professor of political communication at the University of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. His many books include Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli (Hill & Wang) and How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens (Princeton). A collection of insightful and revealing quotations on a wide range...

Sun-Tzu's Art of War is Perhaps the most important book ever written about warfare. It can be used and adapted in every facet of your life. This book explains when and how to go to war, as well as when not to. The wisdom of the ages is distilled here, and no one has ever written a book about war that has become more important or replaced or topped the knowledge in this book. Niccolo Machiavelli considered his Art of War to be his greatest achievement....

Collected here are four of Niccolò Machiavelli's most important works. 'The Prince': It was Niccolò Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with this book, when he asserted that The Prince (president, dictator, prime minister, etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics, as long as their motivation is to protect the state. It is this questionable belief that in many ways had led to the modern world as it is now...

Political and philosophical commentaries on the republic of ancient Rome from the Renaissance author of The Prince. In Discourses, Italian statesman, philosopher, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli offers a wide-ranging analysis of the democratic underpinnings of the Roman Republic, based on the epic history written by Roman scholar Titus Livy.

The description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming. "This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of `virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also...

Machiavelli's history of Florence is more a history of the politics of Florence rather than the events of Florence. Written late in life while out of favor with the ruling party, Machiavelli felt that his country could have been the grandest republic in the world's history, but that it had failed to live up to its full potential. In this book, he explained why and how that came to be.

Il Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli è un capolavoro della filosofia politica che svela le strategie necessarie per conquistare e mantenere il potere. Scritto nel XVI secolo, questa guida pragmatica e provocatoria spoglia la politica dagli idealismi, esplorando il rapporto tra fortuna e virt nel controllo dello Stato. Attraverso esempi storici, Machiavelli offre lezioni senza tempo sulla natura del potere, sfidando le nostre concezioni di moralità...