Book
1532
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Separates political effectiveness from moral goodness, describing how power is actually held rather than how it ought to be.
Read itBefore you start
- Assumes
- a rough sense of Renaissance Italy, or the examples read as a list of unfamiliar names
- This translation
- W. K. Marriott's 1908 translation, which is why the prose sounds Edwardian rather than Florentine. Accurate enough; modern translations read considerably faster.
FreeIntermediateabout 3.5 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026
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