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The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

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Machiavelli wrote this after losing everything. Brutalised and exiled from the Florence he had served for fourteen years, he set down what he had actually watched rulers do rather than what preachers said they ought to do. That gap is the whole book. He is not recommending cruelty so much as reporting that it works, and that a ruler who refuses to use it will be destroyed by someone who will. It reads as cold because it refuses the usual comforts. Five centuries on, the arguments about fortune, reputation and the uses of fear still land, which is either impressive or depressing depending on the day.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine diplomat, historian, and political thinker whose unsentimental analysis of power helped found modern political science. Best known for The Prince, he also wrote the republican Discourses on Livy, histories, and comedies, and served the Florentine Republic until its fall.

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First published
1532
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Pages
140
Language
English
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