Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings (Hackett Classics) - Softcover

Niccolo Machiavelli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087220247X ISBN 13: 9780872202474

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1994

Synopsis

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice. (And indeed, Wootton’s Machiavelli does just that when the occasion demands: renderings of that most problematic of words, virtu, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.

About this title

About the Author:

Machiavelli; Edited and Translated by David Wootton

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 087220247X
• ISBN 13: 9780872202474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272