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ISBN: 0140449159

ISBN13: 9780140449150

De Principatibus / Il Principe

Name: Overrated but still worth the read.
Item: De Principatibus / Il Principe
Rating: 3
Author: Grevius

By Niccolò Machiavelli Nicolas Machiavel Niccolo del Maquiavel, et al.

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Book Overview

Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccoló Machiavelli drew on his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognizing the complicated, transient nature of political life. Concerned not with lofty ideal but with a regime that would last, The Prince has become the bible of realpolitik, and it still retains its power to alarm and to instruct. In this edition, Machiavelli's tough-minded and pragmatic Italian is preserved in George Bull's clear, unambiguous translation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0140449159

ISBN13:9780140449150

Release Date:February 2003

Publisher:Penguin Classics

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.28 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

0 - 2 Years 13 - 17 Years Elections & Political Process History Literature & Fiction Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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Rated 3 stars
Overrated but still worth the read.

By Grevius, July 16, 2024 Verified Purchase

The Prince by Machiavelli is a book written in 1513 as a guide for Princes on how to rule either new principalities or old ones. It's an interesting book, but a simple one. As an introductory course on Realpolitik it works well, but most of the things he says you'll already know. He'll also just be wrong at certain times like when he talks about Military Matters that he very clearly doesn't understand. However this book does...

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Rated 5 stars
amazing all over

By liz from washington, January 26, 2021 Verified Purchase

machiavelli wrote one of the most influential pieces of literature during the 16th century and i’m proud to say that i’ve read it and enjoyed it.

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Rated 5 stars
Prince review

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 4, 2009

This is a must read for literate thinking persons. I have enjoyed the historical setting introduction to the text. It was a valuable enlightenment into the character of Machiavelli, and the events occureing in the nations during Machiavelli's life. Many of the things he speaks of, a person can see repeated or reflected in politics in our world history in the succeeding centuries since Machiavelli's time. A worthwhile way to...

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Rated 5 stars
A Simple Book, Yet It Holds The Answers To Politics

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 1, 2008

Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the classic books to center the ideas of gaining and holding power in political life and what a "Prince" must do to not only accomplish these tasks, but do them successfully. This version of the book is a great copy to use and carry around because Penguin has made this short book into a very small compact size, while not compromising text size and even leaving some room to write in the margins...

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The virtues of Machiavelli

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 3, 2005

In the course of my political science training, I studied at great length the modern idea of realpolitik. In that study I came to realise that it was somewhat incomplete, without the companionship of The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, a Florentine governmental official in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The Prince is an oft quoted, oft mis-quoted work, used as the philosophical underpinning for much of what...

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