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The prince / Niccolò Macchiavelli ; a new translation by Peter Constantine ; introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
- Series:
- Modern Library classics
- Standardized Title:
- Principe. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Early works to 1800.
- Political science.
- Political ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Political ethics.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 126 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Modern Library paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Modern Library, 2008.
- Summary:
- Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. In The Prince he envisioned would be unencumbered by ordinary ethical and moral values; his prince would be man and beast, fox and lion. Today, this small sixteenth-century masterpiece has become essential reading for every student of government, and is the ultimate book on power politics.From the Paperback edition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-126).
- ISBN:
- 9780812978056
- 0812978056
- OCLC:
- 156994618
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