Thoughts of a Statesman

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

The republican Machiavelli: reading Livy's history of Rome, he explains why free states rise and fall and how liberty survives. Ninian Hill Thomson's translation, the natural companion to The Prince.

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