To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power Politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan Virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccol Machiavelli\'s three major political works-- The Prince , Discourses , and Florentine Histories --and demonstrates that a radically demo.
To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power Politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan Virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccol Machiavelli\'s three major political works-- The Prince , Discourses , and Florentine Histories --and demonstrates that a radically demo