Niccolò Machiavelli

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Wayne A. Rebhorn's thorough and thought-provoking introduction to Machiavelli, his world, and his famous political treatise. An accurate and highly readable translation, detailed explanatory annotations, and a map of North Central Italy in Machiavelli's time. A judicious selection of Machiavelli's other writings that inform his immense influence as a diplomat, democrat, and correspondent. Twelve interpretative...

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience...