The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political manual “The Prince,” is ...

MACHIAVELLISM is the name given to a doctrine which might be summed up as follows: The supreme law of politics is success. Politics, therefore, cannot recognize any moral law as binding. What is bad ...

Discovery of a poem attributed to Machiavelli as Italy - and the world - debates how relevant The Prince, his seminal work, remains after 500 years Macchiavelli, a Florentine diplomat and political ...

A British academic has unearthed a 500-year-old proclamation calling for the arrest of the Renaissance political writer Niccolo Machiavelli. The Medici family, who ruled Florence at the time, accused ...

After surviving years in the snake pit of Renaissance politics, Machiavelli penned 'The Prince,' his candid exploration of the mechanisms of power and leadership. Santi di Tito’s portrait of ...

CHICO — A linguistic anthropologist and his wife, a Chico teacher, will follow the footsteps of Niccolo Machiavelli, a 15th century writer and political theorist, during a lecture Sunday at the Valene ...

Niccolò Machiavellis History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is a comprehensive and political work that delves into the intricate history of Florence and Italy during the Renaissance era.

You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed ...

This is the weekend roundup of The WorldPost, of which Nathan Gardels is the editor in chief. Italy is considered the birthplace of modern political science for good reason. Its Florentine son, ...