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19/01/2025
It was a time of whirling chaos and violence, of order breaking down, and of ambitious men forging and losing personal empires in the flux of it all.
Late renaissance Italy is the bewildering scene for Machiavelli’s The Prince, which details how a Prince should act to find success in the midst of dangerous times. Our edition of The Prince contains a wealth of essays and other materials illuminating the course of Machiavelli’s life and the context he was writing in.