FINALIST--2008 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
In The crucial Writings of Machiavelli, Peter Constantine has assembled a accomplished assortment that indicates the real intensity and breadth of a superb Renaissance philosopher. Refreshingly available, those exceptional new translations are devoted to Machiavelli’s unique, fantastically crafted writings.

The quantity beneficial properties essays that seem in English for the 1st time, equivalent to “A warning to the Medici” and “The Persecution of Africa.” additionally integrated are entire models of the political treatise, The Prince, the comedian satire The Mandrake, The lifetime of Castruccio Castracani, and the vintage tale “Belfagor”, in addition to choices from The Discourses, The paintings of War, and Florentine Histories. Augmented with valuable features–vital and concise annotations and cross-references–this specific compendium is sure to develop into the traditional one-volume connection with this influential, flexible, and ever well timed writer.

“Machiavelli's tension on political necessity rather than moral perfection helped encourage the Renaissance via renewing hyperlinks with Thucydides and different classical thinkers. This new assortment provides deeper perception into Machiavelli’s character as a author, therefore broadening our realizing of him.”
–Robert D. Kaplan, writer of Warrior Politics: Why management calls for a Pagan Ethos 

“Constantine’s choice is not just clever; his translations are astonishingly stable. Thoughtfully brought through Albert Russell Ascoli, this variation belongs in everyone’s library.”
–John Jeffries Martin, professor and chair, division of heritage, Trinity University

“If one have been to assign a unmarried variation of Machiavelli's works, this most likely will be it.”
–John P. McCormick, professor, division of political technological know-how, collage of Chicago

From the alternate Paperback edition.