Explores Machiavelli's intellectual engagement with human affairs in a wide triple perspective of history, politics and literature.

Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." The Prince, written by Niccolò Machiavelli, is a groundbreaking work in the genre of political p

Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the eminent minds of the Italian Renaissance, spent much of a long and active lifetime trying to determine and understand what excep

Machiavelli's words are as timely today as they were when he first wrote them, more than 500 years ago. One of the most famous philosophical and political tract