{"product_id":"machiavelli-the-prince-paperback-9781316509265","title":"Machiavelli: The Prince (Paperback \/ softback) 9781316509265","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMachiavelli: The Prince\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFully updated for the first time after thirty years, this new edition includes a thoroughly revised introduction by Quentin Skinner.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNiccolo Machiavelli (Author), Quentin Skinner (Edited by), Russell Price (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316509265, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e202 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.5 x 13.7 x 1.1 cm, 0.29 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers on statecraft and political morality have found impossible to ignore. Quentin Skinner's introduction offers a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text both as a response to the world of Florentine politics and as a critical engagement with the classical and Renaissance genre of advice-books for princes. This new edition also features an improved timeline of key events in Machiavelli's life, helping the reader place the work in the context of its time, in addition to an enlarged and fully updated bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEditorial note\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Principal events in Machiavelli's life\u003cbr\u003e Bibliographical note\u003cbr\u003e Translator's note\u003cbr\u003e Map: northern and central Italy, c.1500\u003cbr\u003e Dedicatory letter: Niccolò Machiavelli to His Magnificence Lorenzo de' Medici\u003cbr\u003e 1. How many kinds of principality there are, and by what means they are acquired\u003cbr\u003e 2. Hereditary principalities\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mixed principalities\u003cbr\u003e 4. Why the Kingdom of Darius, which Alexander occupied, did not rebel against his successors after Alexander's death\u003cbr\u003e 5. By what means cities or provinces that lived under their own laws before they were occupied ought to be administered\u003cbr\u003e 6. New principalities acquired by one's own arms and ability\u003cbr\u003e 7. New principalities acquired through the arms and fortune of others\u003cbr\u003e 8. Those who become rulers through crime\u003cbr\u003e 9. The civil principality\u003cbr\u003e 10. In what ways the strengths of all principalities should be measured\u003cbr\u003e 11. Ecclesiastical principalities\u003cbr\u003e 12. How many kinds of soldiers there are, and mercenary troops\u003cbr\u003e 13. Auxiliaries, mixed troops and one's own troops\u003cbr\u003e 14. How a ruler should act concerning military matters\u003cbr\u003e 15. The things for which men, and especially rulers, are praised or blamed\u003cbr\u003e 16. Liberality and parsimony\u003cbr\u003e 17. Cruelty and mercifulness\u003cbr\u003e and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary\u003cbr\u003e 18. In what way rulers should keep their promises\u003cbr\u003e 19. How contempt and hatred should be avoided\u003cbr\u003e 20. Whether building fortresses, and many other things that rulers frequently do, are useful or useless\u003cbr\u003e 21. What a ruler should do in order to be thought outstanding\u003cbr\u003e 22. On those whom rulers employ in secret matters\u003cbr\u003e 23. How flatterers should be shunned\u003cbr\u003e 24. Why the rulers of Italy have lost their states\u003cbr\u003e 25. How much control fortune has over human affairs, and by what means she can be resisted\u003cbr\u003e 26. An exhortation to seize possession of Italy and assert her liberty from the barbarians\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. Letters relevant to The Prince\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Notes on the vocabulary of The Prince\u003cbr\u003e Biographical notes\u003cbr\u003e Index of subjects\u003cbr\u003e Index of proper names.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political ideologies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political ideologies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20ideologies%20%5BJPF%5D%22\"\u003eJPF\u003c\/a\u003e], Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], History: specific events \u0026amp; topics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History: specific events \u0026amp; topics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History:%20specific%20events%20\u0026amp;%20topics%20%5BHBT%5D%22\"\u003eHBT\u003c\/a\u003e], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45908907491608,"sku":"9781316509265","price":14.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781316509265i.jpg?v=1696681504","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/machiavelli-the-prince-paperback-9781316509265","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}