The Prince

The Prince, which was a political treaty written by Niccolo Machiavelli in the year 1513 but was published in 1532. The book was an illustration of the relationship between politics and moral values. It showed the usage of political power and how to maintain the powers in the western world….

Leadership is the aptitude to direct or control people, but there are many more dimensions of leadership beyond this generalized conception. There are several ways to just guide or direct. A leader is an important person whose qualities help to steer a group of people in a way they consider…

      Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince is a representative discourse on the power structures that surround the political facet of principalities, with a special focus on Italy. For the same reason, it has gained a reputation for being a treatise on autocratic, national, and imperial endeavors. The Song of…

Italy was a key catalyst for rebirth and revival in Europe at the onset of the Renaissance (Baron xxv). Two renowned Italian scholars of this time were Machiavelli and Boccaccio. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) “was the restorer of the Roman conception of politics as civil wisdom, with the aim of preserving…

“[A] prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, . . . but . . . he need not worry about incurring the…

Machiavelli begins ‘The Prince’ by explaining that people come to power in three ways. They gain dominion through the force of arms, fortune (heredity) or ingenuity. How one comes to power influences that must be done to keep power. He then goes on to explain that of all of these,…

“The Prince,” written by the famous Niccolò Machiavelli, has created much controversy in interpretation among different scholars over the years. It is a guide about ruling for a king. Many scholars see it as so while others view it as a satirical book that shows how not to rule. This…

Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia” and Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince” have certain similarities. The two texts have differences too. More’s “Utopia” and Machiavelli’s “The Prince” are similar in the sense that both texts are about leadership. Utopia discusses utopian rule that would establish a society with qualities such as communal property,…

The first and foremost criterion for a ruler is to remain in the seat of power. Truth and integrity are timeless values and as a ruler I will uphold them. The ambition to remain in the seat of power has both positive and negative connotations. The positive one is the…

In his famous work “The Prince”, Machiavelli offers the image of an ideal ruler, which can in principle be applied not only to Italy but also to other states. Machiavelli is mainly focused on the qualities of the ruler, while he pays particular attention to such quality as the ability…