The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Translated by W. K. Marriott
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccol? Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). But the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement Read more [...]