The prince

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Main Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
Other Authors: Bull, George Anthony
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Edition:Reissued with revisions.
Series:Penguin classics
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Physical Description:xxxiv, 106 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxx]-xxxi).
ISBN:0140449159 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman who was later forced out of public life. He then devoted himself to studying and writing political philosophy, history, fiction, and drama.

George Bull is an author and journalist who has translated six volumes for the Penguin Classics: Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography , The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione, Vasari's Lives of the Artists (two volumes), The Prince by Machiavelli and Pietro Aretino's Selected Letters . He is also Consultant Editor to the Penguin Business Series. After reading history at Brasenose College, Oxford, George Bull worked for the Financial Times , McGraw-Hill World News, and for the Director magazine, of which he was Editor-in-Chief until 1984. His other books include Vatican Politics; Bid for Power (with Anthony Vice), a history of take-over bids; Renaissance Italy , a book for children; Venice: The Most Triumphant City ; and Inside the Vatican .

Anthony Grafton teaches European intellectual history at Princeton University.