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Insights into Machiavelli’s Personal and Intellectual Development. This book represents a valuable contribution to understanding Machiavelli, by linking his ideas with the life and context in which ...

Yet almost immediately following publication of The Prince in England in 1584, Machiavellian became a byword for cunning and unscrupulous pragmatism in politics. We find Shakespeare putting this boast ...

One has grown used to reading the kind of revisionist history in which the Renaissance was a myth, the Reformation never happened and the great Irish famine was a spot of food shortage. Britain ...

Alexander Lee’s biography is a great foray into the magnificent life and times of Machiavelli — the father of modern political philosophy Niccolò Machiavelli, the father of modern political philosophy ...

The life of a great thinker presents unique challenges to a would-be biographer. Actions and events are the stuff of biographies, yet thoughts, not deeds, are what chiefly make the thinker of interest ...

The man whose 1513 work The Prince stands as the foundational document of Western political science has ever since been excoriated for his worship of raw power or praised for his grasp of realpolitik.

Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...

One has grown used to reading the kind of revisionist history in which the Renaissance was a myth, the Reformation never happened and the great Irish famine was a spot of food shortage. Britain ...