Part of Alma’s new 101 pages series, The Life of Castruccio Castracani is the only edition in print of the rise and fall of a very ‘Machiavellian’ prince.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a quintessential Renaissance man. Interested in music, poetry and theatre, he was above all a diplomat and a historian. He is most famous for his political treatise The Prince, which has become a cornerstone of modern political philosophy.
Castruccio Castracani is a short book that tells a larger story… it
will show that greatness, as Machiavelli defined it five centuries
ago, is made, not born.
*Richard Overy*
Machiavelli was a pioneer of political science. He was a republican
and a patriot. His prose style was as clear as Julius Caesar’s. He
was a literary genius.
*The Times*
Machiavelli is a pivotal figure in the history of political
thought. His views of human nature, society and government mark a
break with medieval philosophy and sixteenth-century political
thought based on assumptions about God’s purposes for man.
*New Statesman*
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men
do, and not what they ought to do.
*Francis Bacon*
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