Discourses on Livy

The short, unsentimental handbook on how power is won and kept, and the book that turned Machiavelli's name into an adjective. Our own Project Aldus edition, with an introduction to his life in Renaissance Florence.

Niccolò Machiavelli

Seven dialogues in a Florentine garden on how to raise, train and lead an army of citizens instead of hired mercenaries. The only major work Machiavelli printed in his lifetime, in Ellis Farneworth's 1775 translation.

Niccolò Machiavelli

A short collection of Machiavelli's sharpest maxims on rulers, republics, war and fortune, gathered from across his works. A quick way to sample his thinking before opening the longer treatises.

Niccolò Machiavelli