The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli (3; (BTranslated and edited by Peter Bondanella (3; (Bwith an introduction by Maurizio Virolis - Machiavelli, Niccolo (Oxford Oxford University Press, 2005)
When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time
Keywords: political science; State theory and political philosophy