Part of a series tackling some of the most important novels written and studied, this title features explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, analyses of characters and quotes, and plot summaries and analysis, as well as key facts and essay topics.

Professor Skinner presents a lucid analysis of Machiavelli's text as a response to the world of Florentine politics.

Contains various illustrations dealing with The Prince.

This edition features a refined and modernized translation which includes five essays by scholars such as Felix Gilbert and Sir Isaiah Berlin, and a collection of writings throughout the ages pertaining to both Machiavelli and his most famous novel.

Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism and this English translation remains faithful to the original text. With explanatory notes, a glossary of key words and an annotated index, this version reveals Machiavelli's radical vision of a new science of politics.

Here are The Prince and the most important Discourses, newly translated into spare, vivid English by one of the most gifted historians of his generation. 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 ...

Widely read for its insights into history and politics, The Prince is one of the most provocative works of the Italian Renaissance.