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2. The Prince - Wikipedia

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   The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes.

3. Thoughts on Machiavelli - Wikipedia

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   Thoughts on Machiavelli is a book by Leo Strauss first published in 1958. The book is a collection of lectures he gave at the University of Chicago in which he dissects the work of Niccolò Machiavelli. The book contains commentary on Machiavelli's The Prince and the Discourses on Livy. [1]

4. Niccolò Machiavelli - Wikipedia

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   Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli [a] (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine [4] [5] diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.

5. Robert M. Adams (literary scholar) - Wikipedia

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   He was one of the founding editors of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and an editor of the Hudson Review. [1] [7] Adams was a 1978 National Book Award for Translated Literature finalist for translating Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince. [8] A second edition of his translation was published in 1992 (A Norton Critical Edition).

6. Anti-Machiavel - Wikipedia

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   Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, consisting of a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal of The Prince, the 16th-century book by Niccolò Machiavelli. It was first published in September 1740, a few months after Frederick became king. [1]

7. Machiavelli as a dramatist - Wikipedia

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   Machiavelli, having lost the one vocation he understood, turned to writing, the closest thing to being in office he could now experience. In his writing he drew from his years of experience and understanding of the working of a successful "prince." [2] The Prince, published in 1513, was a how-to book on securing and maintaining political power.

8. The Art of War (Machiavelli book) - Wikipedia

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   The Art of War is divided into a preface (proemio) and seven books (chapters), which take the form of a series of dialogues that take place in the Orti Oricellari, the gardens built in a classical style by Bernardo Rucellai in the 1490s for Florentine aristocrats and humanists to engage in discussion, between Cosimo Rucellai and "Lord Fabrizio Colonna" (many feel Colonna is a veiled disguise ...

9. Machiavellianism (politics) - Wikipedia

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   After his exile from political life in 1512, Machiavelli took to a life of writing, which led to the publishing of his most famous work, The Prince.The book would become infamous for its recommendations for absolute rulers to be ready to act in unscrupulous ways, such as resorting to fraud and treachery, elimination of political opponents, and the use of fear as a means of controlling subjects ...