Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World, by Harvey C. Mansfield (Cambridge University Press, 298 pp., $34.99). Harvey Mansfield, not known for timidity, has characteristically titled ...

Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist in his work, “The Prince” a 16th-century political treatise gave a hint of what to expect in politics. After reading “The ...

An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous political manual “The Prince” is going up for auction, with an expected sale price of up to $375,000.

Their Machiavelli is an ordinary humanist, distinguished from his fellows only by his literary gifts and his predilection for boasting. Mansfield, by way of contrast, takes the Florentine at his ...

What we’re missing about Niccolò Machiavelli, explained by an expert. For centuries, The Prince has been popularly viewed as a how-to manual for tyrants.But Benner disagrees. She says it’s ...

Niccolò Machiavelli, the great 16th-century diplomat and writer, is an exception. I don’t know how many people have actually read Machiavelli, but almost everyone knows the name, and almost ...

Machiavelli, after all, lived at a similar inflection point in history. Florence, one of the great Renaissance republics, was ...

Machiavelli, who himself was a diplomat and military leader, wrote the book as a guide for ambitious rulers, specifically the Medicis, seeking to obtain and maintain power in tumultuous times ...

Machiavelli goes so far in his later work as to advise a prince to use his fleeting power to establish a republic. What about the argument that American democracy is too fractious and polarized, ...

An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous political manual “The Prince” is going up for auction, with an expected sale price of up to $375,000.