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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865 - 1946)
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ZIN Product Number: 10153337
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Mass Market Paperback, 1st ed., 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam Books, Incorporated
ISBN: 0553212788
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended and indeed applauded as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. A masterpiece of effective prose, The Prince is at once comic and formidable, imaginative and calculating, fascinating and chilling. Its influence in modern history has been profound, and - often considered to be the first modern book - it was surely a primary text for the modern philosophers who challenged the traditions of ancient and medieval thought and morality. Mansfield's translation of this classic work, in combination with the new material added for this edition, makes it the definitive version of The Prince, indispensable to scholars, students, and lovers of the dark art of politics.
| | | | From The Publisher
The book has been variously described as the first to analyze the role of the political elite; as the one that established the independence of politics from theology; as an early formulation of the political 'myth' required to galvanize apolitical masses into revolutionary action; as a practical rule-book containing timeless precepts for the diplomat; and, most frequently, as the handbook of evil. Based upon Machiavelli's firsthand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyzes the often-violent means by which political power is seized and retained, and the circumstances in which it is lost. Above all, it provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised.
| | | | Annotation
Described as a practical rule-book for the diplomat and a handbook of evil, this work provides an uncompromising picture of the true nature of power.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
A Realistic Portrayal
-- A reviewer, a student from Connecticut, April 24, 2000
Also Recommended: American Sphinx:The Character of Thomas Jefferson
A Fascinating Piece of Political Theory
-- Dan, a high school sophomore., April 4, 2001
Also Recommended: Anna Kerenina, War and Peace, The Count of Monte Crisco, The Brothers Karamazov, The Collected Dialogues of Plato.
machaveilli 
-- Haywoode yablowme, March 13, 2000
Brilliant!!
-- Robbert Nijboer, a Dutch High School student., October 19, 2001
Very undestanding book
-- Tamka Norris, a tenth grade high school student, December 5, 2001
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
Machiavelli (1469-1527) a Florentine philosopher and statesman, is best known for Il principe. Honing his critical eye while watching such men as Caesar Borgia manipulate and maneuver through political intrigue, Machiavelli formed his thoughts and his writings to become a model for political know-how
| |  | | | | Chronology | | | Map | | | Introduction | | | Translator's Note | | | Selected Books | | | Machiavelli's Principal Works | | | Letter to the Magnificent Lorenzo de Medici | 1 | | I | How many kinds of principality there are and the ways in which they are acquired | 5 | | II | Hereditary principalities | 5 | | III | Composite principalities | 6 | | IV | Why the kingdom of Darius conquered by Alexander did not rebel against his successors after his death | 13 | | V | How cities or principalities which lived under their own laws should be administered after being conquered | 16 | | VI | New principalities acquired by one's own arms and prowess | 17 | | VII | New principalities acquired with the help of fortune and foreign arms | 20 | | VIII | Those who come to power by crime | 27 | | IX | The constitutional principality | 31 | | X | How the strength of every principality should be measured | 34 | | XI | Ecclesiastical principalities | 36 | | XII | Military organization and mercenary troops | 39 | | XIII | Auxiliary, composite, and native troops | 43 | | XIV | How a prince should organize his militia | 47 | | XV | The things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed | 49 | | XVI | Generosity and parsimony | 51 | | XVII | Cruelty and compassion; and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse | 53 | | XVIII | How princes should honour their word | 56 | | XIX | The need to avoid contempt and hatred | 58 | | XX | Whether fortresses and many of the other present-day expedients to which princes have recourse are useful or not | 67 | | XXI | How a prince must act to win honour | 71 | | XXII | A prince's personal staff | 75 | | XXIII | How flatterers must be shunned | 76 | | XXIV | Why the Italian princes have lost their states | 78 | | XXV | How far human affairs are governed by fortune, and how fortune can be opposed | 79 | | XXVI | Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians | 82 | | Glossary of Proper Names | 86 | | Notes | 99 |
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