"The Prince", by Niccolo Machiavelli, Session 1
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The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended as the first scientific treatment of politics as it is practiced rather than as it ought to be practiced. We are using Harvey C. Mansfield's brilliant translation of this classic work.
Mansfield's acclaimed translation features an updated bibliography, a substantial glossary, an analytic introduction, a chronology of Machiavelli's life, and a map of Italy in Machiavelli's time.
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This translation has 184 pages. We will have two sessions.
Session 1: Introduction, Chapters I - XVII.
Session 2: Chapters XVIII - XXVI.
Meetings will be videoconference, via Zoom.
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