Great book, worth every penny and every minute. To be served with a good glass of wine, or a cup of tea in a quiet environment. Get ready for surprises, interesting associations and intellectual delight.
With a great and widely-read book like this one, making fresh observations is difficult. While some of the historical examples seem arcane, the basic principles expressed throughout are as true today as when the book went to press almost 500 years ago. Besides being applicable to politics, 'The Prince' can also be applied to business (especially in today's world) and even love. After all: "All is fair in both love and war." Machiavelli himself was a very astute Italian politician during the Renaissance and not surprisingly, a womanizer too. He would most likely approve of the lasting popularity of his work despite the fact that during his own life, he tried to hush it up. Page for page, no book in history has said more in fewer pages. Of all the books in the elite category of "Must Read" this book stands out like a beacon.
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That Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its author’s realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works.
This book shows how, for the fist time, political theorists broke with the medieval tradition "Do what God wants and you'll stay in power", and realized that there were times when what was effective was not always what was moral. Niccolo Machiavelli showed a stunned audience (though a very small audience at the time) how to effectively use power as a ruler to cause your subjects to fear, and thus be loyal to you. While you may not agree with his ideas, they are stated in such an understandable and matter-of-fact manner that you have to at least think about them for a while.
Details For The Prince (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
- Series: Everyman's Library (Cloth) ( Download PDF :
) - Hardcover: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 0679410449
- ISBN-13: 978-0679410447
- Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
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- Publisher: Everyman's Library; First Edition edition (June 30, 1992)
- Language: English
About the Author
Peter Constantine, winner of the PEN Translation Prize and a National Translation Award, has earned wide acclaim for his translation of The Undiscovered Chekhov and of the complete works of Isaac Babel, as well as for his Modern Library translations, which include The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, Gogol’s Taras Bulba, Voltaire’s Candide, and Tolstoy’s The Cossacks.
Albert Russell Ascoli is Gladys Arata Terrill Distinguished Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and was awarded the Rome Prize for study at the American Academy in Rome.
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