Diplomatic Missions and Papers, 1506-1527

Machiavelli's history of his city, from the fall of Rome to the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent in 1492, commissioned by the Medici themselves. Factions, conspiracies and sharp portraits of rulers, with an introduction by Hugo Albert Rennert.

Niccolò Machiavelli

The half-legendary life of the foundling who became lord of Lucca, written as a portrait of the ideal leader. Also includes Machiavelli's cold account of how Cesare Borgia trapped and killed his rebel captains, in W. K. Marriott's translation.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Machiavelli's dispatches as a Florentine envoy to the Countess of Forli, the King of France, the Pope and Cesare Borgia, written in the heat of events. The raw notes behind many lessons of The Prince, in Christian E. Detmold's translation.

Niccolò Machiavelli