Niccolo Machiavelli, an exerpt from The Great Ploitical Theories Volume 1 Avon books, 1961 and 1981.
This is a short and concise series of
extracts from
Machiavelli’s two principal works. The Prince and Discourses on Livy. I strongly suggest reading these two works in their entirety.
In the Prince Niccolo Writes to the
new Medici Prince of Florence. The Medici’s had just unseated Machiavelli’s benefactor the Borga’s. As such Niccolo still wanted the Medici’s to unite Italy against the French interlopers.
In the Discourses, Niccolo writes about
his notions of right government. His perspective is skewed due to his frame of reference, as is ours, but his knowledge of human nature and motivations are illustrative.
As an aside, the serious student of political history and theory would be well served by reading these two books, The Great Political Theories Volumes 1 and 2.
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