Machiavelli: The Prince

Niccol Machiavelli's The Prince is a renowned political thought work that challenges traditional morality and offers advice to princes. This new edition, revised for the first time after thirty years, includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner, providing a critical analysis of the text and its historical context.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 202 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This 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.

Weight: 290g
Dimension: 138 x 215 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781316509265
Edition number: 2 Revised edition