The controversial Italian statesman Machiavelli’s work The Prince has been used as an apologia for tyranny and tyrants. But old Nick, argues the author, is a man misunderstood.

For more than five hundred years the name Machiavelli has resonated through the world of politics and power.He was an extraordinary man living in an extraodinary age: a brilliant thinker and theorist who was also a consummate displomat and Secretary for the Florentine government in turbulent Renaissance Italy.The Prince is one of the most important and enduring works in the Western Canon and has remained in print for over half a millennium.Yet, in his lifetime, The book, with its apparently cynical advice to a tyrant on how to stay on top, brought Machiavelli only trouble, and led to his being characterisd for posterity as a corrupt, power-hungry demon whose works encouraged tyrants to kill and control.

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Product Code:	10235
Author:	Michael White
ISBN:	978 0 349 11599 3
Format:	304pp, b/w photographs, sb. Published Price £8.99
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