Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.

Machiavelli saw history in general as a way to learn useful lessons from the past for the present, and also as a type of analysis which could be built upon, as

Presents unabridged works and substantive abridgments in preeminent translations, along with balanced, lucid, sophisticated introductions. This book includes a

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.