The Prince

A detailed Summary of The Prince

The Prince, written sometime in the early 16th century by Niccolo Machiavelli

(1469-1527), is widely considered to be the first book written explicitly as an

examination of political science. Among the most original thinkers of the Renaissance,

throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries his name would be synonymous with

cruelty, deviousness, and purposefully destructive rationality. No political thinker was

ever more demonized or misunderstood than Machiavelli. The main source of this

misunderstanding, as well as the source of debate that continues to this day among

political thinkers and historians, is Machiavelli's most influential and widely read

treatise on government, The Prince, a remarkably short book that attempts to lay out

methods to secure and maintain political power. It seems that Machiavelli really had no

strong political commitments, living more of the life of professional diplom

You can easily identify Machiavellian aspects in every nook and cranny of our modern

terms without any thought toward traditional ethics or morals. In many ways you could

with and getting a job in the Medici government.

phenomena of politics, studying as many of the writings on the subject as he could, and

Approximate Word count = 640
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: History

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