Niccolò Machiavelli
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For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is also important to historians and scholars of Italian correspondence. He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.
After his death Machiavelli's name came to evoke unscrupulous acts of the sort he advised most famously in his work, ''The Prince''. He claimed that his experience and reading of history showed him that politics have always been played with deception, treachery, and crime. He also notably said that a ruler who is establishing a kingdom or a republic, and is criticized for his deeds, including violence, should be excused when the intention and the result are beneficial to him. Machiavelli's ''Prince'' has been surrounded by controversy since its release. Some consider it to be a straightforward description of political reality. Others view the Prince as a manual, teaching would-be tyrants how they should seize and maintain power. Even into recent times, some scholars, such as Leo Strauss, have restated the traditional opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher of evil".
The term ''Machiavellian'' often connotes political deceit, deviousness, and realpolitik. Even though Machiavelli has become most famous for his work on principalities, scholars also give attention to the exhortations in his other works of political philosophy. While much less well known than ''The Prince'', the ''Discourses on Livy'' (composed ) has been said to have paved the way of modern republicanism. His works were a major influence on Enlightenment authors who revived interest in classical republicanism, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James Harrington. Machiavelli's political realism has continued to influence generations of academics and politicians, including Hannah Arendt and Otto von Bismarck. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1965Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1965 (1978 printing)lxxxviii, 247 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. -
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Published 1945Delhi : Maktaba Jāmiʻa, 1945.216 p. ; 18 cm. -
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Published 1961Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, c1961153 p. ; 18 cm. -
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Published 1852Firenze, F. Le Monnier, 1852.xviii, 652 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1817Wien, Mich. Lehner, 1817.2 v. -
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Published 1891Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1891.4 v. fronts. (ports., v. 1-3) 24 cm. -
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Published 1971Torino, Giulio Einaudi, 1971.82 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1923Firenze, 1923.337 p., 20 cm. -
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Published 1640London : Printed by R. Bishop, for Wil : Hils, and are to be sold by Daniel Pakeman, 1640.[12], 305, [7] p. -
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Published 1965Milano, Feltrinelli Editore [1965]xxiii, 391 p. -
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Published 1972Milano, Carlo Signorelli, 1972.126 p. 15 cm. -
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Published 1599Montisbelgardi, : [s.n.], M D XCIC. [1599][8], 210, [26], 326, [2] p. -
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Published 1891London, New York [etc] 1891.443 p. 22 cm. -
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Published 1968Milano, Fratelli Fabbri editori [1968]267 p. 18 cm. -
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Published 1630Venetia, Presso Marco Ginammi, 1630.6 p.l., 399, [1] p. 23 cm. -
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Published 1577Paris : chez G. de la Noue, 1577.[44], 294, [1] p. -
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Published 1894Firenze, G. C. Sansoni, 1894.xxix, 372 p., 1 ̋. 20 cm. -
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Published 1946Ceṉṉai : Tiṉamaṇi Kāriyālayam, 1946.172 p. ; 20 cm. -
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Published 1898London, G. Bell & sons, 1898.xx, 522 p. front (port.) 19 cm.