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The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli (Macmillan Collector's Library, 205)

The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli (Macmillan Collector's Library, 205)

by Niccolò Machiavelli (Author), Oliver Francis (Introduction)

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    Hardcover 2019

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Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

The Prince, written in 1513 and published in 1532, is one of the most famous pieces of writing of all time. This edition has an afterword by Oliver Francis.

Drawing on examples from the ancient Greeks and Romans and from Machiavelli's contemporaries, it offers - some believed with satirical intent - advice on how a ruler should preserve his power, conduct and warfare, and maintain his reputation. Machiavelli not only influenced many of the great statesmen of his age, but was also one of the founding fathers of modern political thought. The Prince provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter what era or by whom it is exercised.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Main Market
 Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
Published: 05 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 1529008409
ISBN 13: 9781529008401

Media Reviews
Few books have attracted such an influential readership as The Prince -- Michael Arditti * The Telegraph *
Machiavelli was showing how to achieve power and hold on to it -- Lesley McDowell
At a time when pious drivel, feckless rhetoric and fatal arrogance too often rule the affairs of us all, a realist dollop of Machiavellianism might well be added to the cauldron of post-modern statecraft -- Ronald K. L. Collins * Washington Independent Review of Books *
Author Bio
Niccolo Machiavelli was born on 3 May 1469 in Florence, during that city-state's peak of greatness under the Medici family. In 1494, the year the Medici were exiled, Machiavelli entered Florentine public service. In 1498 he was appointed Chancellor and Secretary to the Second Chancery. Serving as diplomat for the republic, Machiavelli was an emissary to some of the most distinguished people of their age. When the Medici were returned to Florence in 1512, Machiavelli was forced into retirement. In the years that followed he devoted himself to literature, producing not only his most famous work, The Prince, but also the Discourses of the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, his Art of War and The History of Florence. In 1527 the Medici were again expelled from Florence, but before Machiavelli was able once more to secure political office in the city he dies on 22 June 1527.