The Prince
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Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was originally written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the most remembered, and the work responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term. It has also been suggested by some critics that the piece is, in fact, a satire.
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See also
- Mirrors for princes, the genre
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Similar works
- Cyropaedia, read by many alongside The Prince
- Siyasatnama
- On War
- The Art of War
- The Evil Overlord List
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Other works by Machiavelli
Discouraged by the Catholic "Index"
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