Name: The Prince
Brand: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)
SKU: 9780872209206
Price: 47.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

The Prince

By (author): Niccolo Machiavelli, Edited and translated by: James B. Atkinson

Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)

In Stock

£47.99

Format: Hardback
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780872209206
Publication Date: 15-Mar-2008

Subjects:
Literary studies: classical
early & medieval
Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance
c 500
Social & political philosophy

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To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory, sources, and language as possible. I have gradually come to realize that readers who remain unaware of these topics frequently finish reading The Prince , put down their copies, and wonder what the shouting was all about. Thus commented eminent Machiavelli scholar James B. Atkinson thirty years ago in justifying what remains today the most informative English-language edition of Machiavelli's masterpiece available.

James B. Atkinson is an independent scholar.

This edition of the The Prince has three distinct and disparate objectives: to provide a fresh and accurate translation; to analyze and find the roots of Machiavelli's thought; and to collect relevant extracts from other works by Machiavelli and some contemporaries, to be used to illuminate and explicate the text. The objectives are all reached with considerable and admirable skill. The reader senses Professor Atkinson's empathy and feeling for even the tiniest movements in Machiavelli's mind. Professor Atkinson has done a great service to students and teachers of Machiavelli, who should certainly welcome this as the most useful edition of The Prince in English. --Mario Domandi, Italica , 1978