Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the most remembered, and the work responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1513
Translator: Ninian Hill Thomson
Word count: 32,174 words (≈ about 2 hours)
Source: Wikisource
Copyright: Public Domain
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