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An edition of The Prince (1515)

The Prince (Bantam Classics)

  • 3.76 ·
  • 75 Ratings
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The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction guide for new princes and royals. The general theme of The Prince is of accepting that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends.

From Machiavelli's correspondence, a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was carried out with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscript, controversy had swirled about his writings".

Although The Prince was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it was generally agreed as being especially innovative. This is partly because it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice that had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature.

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Bantam Classics
Language
English
Pages
160

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Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2018-04-23, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: The prince
The prince
2016, Wildside Press
in English
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The prince
2011, Tribeca Books
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
2006-02-11, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: El príncipe
El príncipe
2004, El Nacional
in Spanish
Cover of: De principatibus =
De principatibus =: Le prince
2000, Presses universitaires de France
in Spanish - 1. ed.
Cover of: Il principe
Il principe
/1993, [publisher not identified]
in English
Cover of: The Prince (Bantam Classics)
The Prince (Bantam Classics)
August 1, 1984, Bantam Classics
Mass Market Paperback in English
Cover of: Il principe
Il principe: (De principatibus)
1979, University Press, S. F. Vanni, Manchester Univ Pr
in Italian
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1969-08, Washington Square Press
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1965, Airmont Books
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1963, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Prince
The Prince
1953-05, New American Library
in English

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Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
160
Dimensions
6.9 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
Weight
2.9 ounces

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Open Library
OL7820439M
Internet Archive
prince00mach_0
ISBN 10
0553212788
ISBN 13
9780553212785
Library Thing
6026
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168661

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