By Ross King

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli's handbook on power—how to get it and how to keep it—has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt. Its author, born to an established middle-class family, was no prince himself. Machiavelli (1469–1527) worked as a courtier and diplomat for the Republic of Florence and enjoyed some small fame in his time as the author of bawdy plays and poems. Upon the Medici's return to power, however, he found himself summarily dismissed from the government he had served for decades and exiled from the city where he was born.

Published Date: 29/05/2007 Format: HardBack ISBN: 978-0-06-081717-6 Publisher: - Rating: Retail price: US Dollar $ 21.95 (Rs. 1,570.30) Our price: Rs. 1,100.00 You Save: Rs. 470.30 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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