A quite old book, which saw a new edition published this year, isQuentin Skinner’sVery Short IntroductiontoMachiavelli. I thoroughly recommend that, it’s a brilliant book partly about another brilliant book. Quentin Skinner is a top historian, political philosopher, and thinker.Machiavelli’sThe...
The Life of Castruccio Castracani is a short work by Niccolò Machiavelli. It is made in the form of a short biographical account of the life of the medieval Tuscan condottiere, Castruccio Castracani, who lived in and ruled Lucca. The book is thought to have been written during a visit...
Meditationsis perhaps the only document of its kind ever made. It is the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man giving advice to himself on how to make good on the responsibilities and obligations of his positions. Trained inStoic philosophy,Marcus Aureliusstopped almost every night ...
We have agreed a translation, and it is Tyndale’s, as far as we have his work, but it goes under another scholar’s name. We have put Henry’s own image on the title page. We want him to see himself there. We need him to set forth a Bible under his own licence, and set the...
Alfieri (1749–1803). The classic comedy is more fortunate. There are the ‘Mandragola’ of Machiavelli, the plays of Pietro Aretino, of Giambattista della Porta (1535–1615), the ‘Candelaio’ of Giordano Bruno. But beside the literary comedy a popular type was also developing: the “...
The second section, “How opposition integrates itself,” gives a complete translation of the ancient Greek thinker Herakleitos, mirrored: it is actually two complete translations. For each passage of the original, “my own” “normal” translation into “my own words” is mirrored by a “tran...
This major new edition combines an accurate and accessible new translation with important related documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. In his lucid introductory essay, William J. Connell offers fresh insights into Machiavelli's life, the meaning of his work, the ...