TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machiavelli, Niccolo
TI  - The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli ؛ Translated and edited by Peter Bondanella ؛ with an introduction by Maurizio Viroli
T2  - Oxford World's classics 
SN  - 019280426X
U1  - 320.1 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Oxford 
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - political science
KW  - State theory and political philosophy
N1  - 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
ER  -