| Title | : | The Prince |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Nicolo Machiavelli |
| Release | : | 2016-09-20 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Philosophy, Books, Nonfiction, Politics & Current Events, Political Science |
| Size | : | 682940 |
| The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. Officially published five years after his death, Machiavelli's best-known work is seen as the first work of modern political philosophy. Like Dante's Divine Comedy, it was written in Italian vernacular, not Latin, a practice that was gaining popularity during the Italian Renaissance. The book itself is a study of how to acquire and maintain power politically. Dedicated to Lorenzo De Medici, it is notable for creating the term machiavellian to describe a type of unscrupulous and scheming method attaining power. |
