Erica Benner is a political philosopher and the author of numerous books about Machiavelli including my favorite, Be Like the ...

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 ...

The name Niccolo Machiavelli is synonymous with political deceit, cynicism and the ruthless use of power. The Italian Renaissance writer called his most famous work, The Prince, a handbook for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...