The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Translated by W. K. Marriott
- Length
- 20 mornings, about 2,200 words a reading
About the book
The Prince is a short handbook on how rulers win power and keep it. Niccolò Machiavelli, a Florentine diplomat and official, wrote it around 1513. The Medici family had just returned to rule Florence. Machiavelli lost his post, was jailed and tortured on suspicion of plotting against them, and then withdrew to his farm outside the city. He dedicated the book to Lorenzo de’ Medici, hoping to win the family’s favour. It was printed in 1532, five years after his death.
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