London (CNN) — The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, a extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political ...

Few historical figures are as divisive and polarizing as Niccolo Machiavelli ... the word Machiavellian - derived from his most famous work, The Prince - has come to mean cunning, deceit, and ...

But this famous passage should be read together with the last passage cited, in which Machiavelli mentions both sharing his work with a friend and the fact that he is continually working on it.

Mr. Bernini’s seamless weave of sources and storytelling sometimes resembles recent biographical works ... Machiavelli’s own words into its fictional fabric. But it often attributes the famous ...

The most famous work by Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli is up for auction in the United Kingdom and is estimated to sell for $375,000 (€300,000), CNN reported on Friday.

But experts are more interested in the book’s inclusion of The Prince, Machiavelli’s most famous work, which he wrote around 1513. “We were not aware of any other copies in private hands ...

She explores Machiavelli's most famous work, The Prince and asks: Was he a cynical manipulator or a realist ahead of his time? Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Alice ...

Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World, by Harvey C. Mansfield (Cambridge University Press, 298 pp., $34.99) Harvey Mansfield, not known for timidity, has characteristically titled ...

As he hurries through the narrow streets of Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli muses anxiously that “slander can dig a grave for an honest man.” In Franco Bernini’s novel “The Throne,” the ...