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Jun 12, 2025 41 min

Machiavelli's The Prince

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Unpack Machiavelli's The Prince: A ruthless guide to acquiring and keeping power. Explore virtù vs. fortuna, the ethics of fear vs. love, and political realism. Essential for understanding leadership and the true nature of power. Works Cited "A Critical Interpretation of Leo Strauss' Thoughts on Machiavelli." PhilArchive, n.d. Ashcroft, Rachel. "What were Virtù and Fortuna According to Niccolò Machiavelli?" TheCollector, n.d. Belloc, Marianna, et al. "The Medici's quiet coup: How the wealthy bend politics without shifting institutions." CEPR, 2023. "The Borgias: The Real-Life Papal Family That Scandalized Rome." Factual America, n.d. byrd_nick. "How Machiavelli changed political philosophy and what “Machiavellian” really means." Reddit, r/philosophy, n.d. Byrne, Joseph P. "Florentine Wars." EBSCO Research Starters, 2023. "Cesare Borgia." Wikipedia, 12 May 2024. Full-Subject265. "The Prince by Niccoto Machiavelli: Mansfield's translation vs Bondanella's translation." Reddit, r/PoliticalPhilosophy, n.d. Garver, Eugene. "Machiavelli's The Prince: A Neglected Rhetorical Classic." Philosophy & Rhetoric, vol. 13, no. 2, Spring 1980, pp. 99-120. Digital Commons Network, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40237139. "Girolamo Savonarola." Wikipedia, 27 May 2024. GothamsWarrior11. "I cant understand the prince what should I do?" Reddit, r/PoliticalPhilosophy, n.d. "How Did the City-State of Florence Reflect the Renaissance Worldview?" sutherlandgpcs, n.d. "Italian Renaissance." Wikipedia, 11 Jan. 2024. "Italian Wars." Wikipedia, 22 Dec. 2023. Loughlin, Martin. "Reason of State/State of Reason." Political Jurisprudence, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 141-168. Oxford Academic, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810223.003.0009. Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Translated and edited by Peter Bondanella, with an introduction by Maurizio Viroli, Oxford University Press, 2008. ---. The Prince. Translated and with an introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield, Second Edition, The University of Chicago Press, 1998. ---. The Prince. Translated by W. K. Marriott, Project Gutenberg, 2006, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1232.html.images. Machiavelli, Niccolò, and Harvey C. Mansfield. "The Prince." Goodreads, n.d. Majoul, B., et al. "A Cynical Theory and Wicked Men: The Origins of Classical Realism's Pessimism and Cynicism." ICLAHD 2022, ASSEHR 726, Atlantis Press, 2023, pp. 448–454, https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_56. "Morgenthau and Realism." Surendranath Evening College, n.d. Najemy, John M., editor. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli. Cambridge University Press, 2010. O'Rourke, John. "Machiavelli’s The Prince: Still Relevant after All These Years." BU Today, 6 Feb. 2013. "Power to the People: The role of the People in The Prince." Arts One - The University of British Columbia, n.d. "Realism (international relations)." Wikipedia, 4 May 2024. Ridolfi, Roberto. The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli. Translated by Cecil Grayson, University of Chicago Press, 1963. Rohr, Zita. "Machiavelli's Legacy: 'The Prince' After Five Hundred Years ed. by Timothy Fuller (review)." Parergon, vol. 33, no. 3, 2016, pp. 211-212. Skinner, Quentin. "Machiavelli's political morality." European Review, vol. 6, no. 3, Aug. 1998, pp. 321-325. Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798700003355. Strauss, Leo. Thoughts on Machiavelli. The University of Chicago Press, 1958. Tashko, Gerti. "Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) – Architect of Political Realism." Dr. Tashko, n.d. "The Prince." Wikipedia, 4 May 2024. "The Prince Themes." LitCharts, n.d. "Virtù." Wikipedia, 12 May 2024. Walsh, Mary. "Historical reception of Machiavelli." Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli, edited by Mary Walsh, Brill, 2007, pp. 271–301. "What Can You Learn from Machiavelli?" Yale Insights, n.d.

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