The Prince And Other Pieces

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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Machiavelli's The Prince was a battle for obtaining and maintaining power in 14th century Italy but it is surprisingly relevant to the understanding of business, politics and the nature of society.

Excerpt from The Prince: And Other Pieces NiCOLd MACHIAVKLL1 is one of the three great writers produced by Italy in the sixteenth century-Machiavelli, Ariosto, Tasso. He died in 1527, at the age of fifty eight. Ariosto, who was five years younger, died six years later, at the age of fifty-nine, liut Tasso was not born until eleven years after Ariosto's death. Machiavellrs " Pr ince" (// Prrncipe) was finished in 1513. and Ariosto was then writing his "Orlando Furioso," of which he published, after eleren years of work upon it, forty cantos in 1515. Each writer was a master of style;aa Machiavelli remains to this day w ithout equal as a writer of Italian prose, and Ariosto would often spend a daay in polishing a few lines written in the morning. Living in evil times, de-cribcd by an Italian as times when in Italy the source of every noide feeling was dried up, family life corrupted, virtue mocked, the Church heathen, and faith dead, Machiavelli dealt directly, in the world and in the study, with the life, and with what seemed to him the pressing need, of his own time and country. Ariosto escaped from it all, and sang of Charlemagne and Roland with a playful grace that saved him from the vulgarity of having faith even in the talc lie told. He was very far from any suggestion through it of the deeper life of man. And what of Machiavelli, who did speak for his time and country, and whose name has become proverbial for a crafty poliiician? "Am I politic? Am I subtle? Am I a Machiavcl ?" asks the host of the 'Garter' in "The Merry Wives of Windsor.1' In the third part of King Henry VI. Shakespeare changed an allusion in the older play from "the aspiring Catiline" to "the murderous Machiavel" that, in spite of chronology, he might use a more familiar by-word. "The Prince" is the famous text book of Machiavclian policy on which this popular opinion rests. Nicolo Machiavelli was born in Florence, on the 3rd of May, 1469. He was of a noble family that had given up small lordship at Monte Spertoli for broader rights of citizenship in the good days of Florence, and that had contributed from time to time thirteen Gonfalouieri and fifty-three Priors to the number of the citizens who had been trusted with authority. DEGREES Machiavelli's father was a lawyer, and his moiher, Bartolomea Nello, had a taste for poetry. After liberal training in the study of the classics, lie entered, at the age of about twenty-nmc, into the service of the Signory. Lorenzo dc' Medici, luxurious destroyer of the liberties of Florence, had died on the 8th of April, 1492- He had called to his death-bed the persecuted Savonarola, that angel who disturbed the waters, and for many a soul turned sickness into health: " Have faith in God," Savonarola said. " I have faith in God," answered the dying Lorenzo. "Restore, '' said the Friar, "or bid your sons restore, all t'.iat you have taken wrongfully from others." There was a pause of inward struggle, and Lorenzo bowed his head in assent also to this. "You must restore also her liberty to Florence." At this Lorenzo turned his face away, and from Savonarola he received no absolution. When Lorenzo died Machiavelli's age was twenty-three. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."