Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist in his work, “The Prince” a 16th-century ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In his book Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Quentin Skinner, perhaps the foremost contemporary scholar of modern republicanism, relates how the renowned republican thinker Niccolò ...

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 ...

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 ...

However cynical it may seem, Machiavelli’s The Prince has long been recognized as a source of insights for anyone trying run a business or gain power in one. A ferocious little treatise of under 100 ...

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.