ENGLISH

Selected Political Writings

By Niccolo Machiavelli , Edited and Translated by David Wootton

Book information

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Company
Year
1994
ISBN
087220247X, 9780872202474, 0872202488, 9780872202481
LCC
JC143 .M1463 1994
Google Books ID
YnfqzS7iNtsC
Open Library ID
OL1096593M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1831014 bytes)
Series
Hackett Classics Series
Pages
274\274
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. Why a new translation? "Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations", says David Wootton in his Introduction. "In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice." (And indeed, Wootton's Machiavelli literally does so when the occasion demands: Renderings of that most problematic of words, virtu, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction, no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.

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