The Prince (Bantam Classics) By Niccolo Machiavelli, Daniel Donno (Translator), Daniel John Donno, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther ISBN: 9780553212785 ASIN: B0073UU1HM ASIN: B000FA5KFA ASIN: B00KWPSND4 ASIN: B001ISQTVM ASIN: B007234SX8 Published: 1984 Number of Pages: 166 Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Bantam Classics Description: When Lorenzo de' Medici seized control of the Florentine Republic in 1512, he summarily fired the Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Signoria and set in motion a fundamental change in the way we think about politics. The person who held the aforementioned office with the tongue-twisting title was none other than Niccolò Machiavelli, who, suddenly finding himself out of a job after 14 years of patriotic service, followed the career trajectory of many modern politicians into punditry. Unable to become an on-air political analyst for a television network, he only wrote a book. But what a book The Prince is. Its essential contribution to modern political thought lies in Machiavelli's assertion of the then revolutionary idea that theological and moral imperatives have no place in the political arena. "It must be understood," Machiavelli avers, "that a prince ... cannot observe all of those virtues for which men are reputed good, because it is often necessary to act against mercy, against faith, against humanity, against frankness, against religion, in order to preserve the state." With just a little imagination, readers can discern parallels between a 16th-century principality and a 20th-century presidency. --Tim Hogan

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number: 66025554
   - Canceled/invalid LC control number: 66025554

International Standard Book Number: 0553212273 (pbk.) :: 0553212788 (cover): 0553212788 (pbk.) :
   - Terms of availability: $2.50

Language Code
   - Language code of text/sound track or separate title: eng
   - Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text: ita

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Machiavelli, Niccol{grave}o,
   - Personal name: Machiavelli, Niccol∩┐╜o,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1469-1527.

Uniform Title: Principe.
   - Language of a work: English

Title Statement
   - Title: The prince /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: by Niccolo Machiavelli ; with selections from The discourses ; translated by Daniel Donno ; edited and with an introduction by the translator.

Edition Statement: Bantam Classic ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Bantam Books,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1981, c1966.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 147 p. :
   - Other physical details: map ;
   - Dimensions: 18 cm.

Series Statement: Bantam classic

General Note: "Discourses upon the first ten books of Titus Livy": p. 91-122.: Translation of: Il principe.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-147)
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-147).

Subject Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Livy.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Political ethics
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Political ethics.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Political science
   - Form subdivision: Early works to 1800.
   - General subdivision: Early works to 1800.

Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Donno, Daniel John,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1920-