Niccolò Machiavelli
1) The prince
Benché si tratti dell'unico lavoro storico-politico dell'autore pubblicato mentre questi era ancora in vita, è un libro meno letto e conosciuto del Principe, uscito postumo.
L'opera è scritta, nello stile del dialogo, con lo scopo, dichiarato in principio da Fabrizio Colonna (alter ego dello stesso Machiavelli):
« di onorare e premiare le virtù, non dispregiare la povertà, stimare i modi e gli ordini della disciplina militare,
3) El Príncipe
(en el original en italiano: Il principe) es un tratado de doctrina política compuesto por Nicolás Maquiavelo en 1513 mientras se encontraba en San Casciano confinado por la acusación de haber conspirado en contra de los Medici. Maquiavelo dedicó la obra a Lorenzo II de Medici, hijo de Pedro II de Medici, con la esperanza de reconquistar el encargo de Secretario de la República, y fue publicada póstumamente en 1532. Se trata sin duda de su
...4) Il principe
5) The Prince
The Prince is a book that was controversial before it had even been sent to the printer. Written in vernacular Italian instead of Latin, dedicated to a member of one of the most powerful Italian families of the day, and only printed after Machiavelli’s death, this treatise on how to tyrannize effectively was considered shocking even by his contemporaries. The discussion of its morality that continues to this day gives us the modern-day
...The Art of War (Dell'arte della guerra), is one of the lesser-read works of Florentine statesman and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.
The format of 'The Art of War' was in socratic dialogue. The purpose, declared by Fabrizio (Machiavelli's persona) at the outset, "To honor and reward virtù, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live
History of Florence and of the affairs of Italy from the earliest times to the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent / Niccolo Machiavelli
"Machiavelli’s longest work—commissioned by Pope Leo X in 1520, presented to Pope Clement VII in 1525, and first published in 1532—is a history of Florence from its origin to the death of Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici in 1492. Adopting the approach of humanist historians before him, Machiavelli used
...Often abbreviated as The Description for reasons of brevity, [this] work by Italian Renaissance political scientist and historian Niccolò Machiavelli...describes the methods used by Cesare Borgia to suppress and murder members of the Orsini family, a princely family of Renaissance Rome. Both Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo were strangled on the night of their capture on 31 December 1502. -Wikipedia. Translated by W.
...Set amid the ferment and factionalism of early modern Italy, Life of Castruccio Castracani is a vivid and action-packed account of the rise and fall of a very "Machiavellian" prince. A charismatic warlord of the early 14th century, Castruccio Castracani came from humble beginnings as a foundling, and ended his life as ruler of Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia, and Florence. (Goodreads)
11) A Description
Often abbreviated as The Description for reasons of brevity, [this] work by Italian Renaissance political scientist and historian Niccolò Machiavelli...describes the methods used by Cesare Borgia to suppress and murder members of the Orsini family, a princely family of Renaissance Rome. Both Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo were strangled on the night of their capture on 31 December 1502. -Wikipedia. Translated by W.
...Set amid the ferment and factionalism of early modern Italy, Life of Castruccio Castracani is a vivid and action-packed account of the rise and fall of a very "Machiavellian" prince. A charismatic warlord of the early 14th century, Castruccio Castracani came from humble beginnings as a foundling, and ended his life as ruler of Lucca, Pisa, Pistoia, and Florence. (Goodreads)