Machiavelli's Prince : a new reading / Erica Benner.

Why did Machiavelli write 'The Prince' - and why did Church and political authorities find it so threatening? 500 years after Machiavelli first told friends that he had written a 'little work' on principalities, this book tries to answer these questions. It offers a chapter-by-ch...

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Main Author: Benner, Erica (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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