The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli
| dc.contributor | Bryder, Tom Department of Political Science Universary of Copenhagen Copenhagen |
| dc.contributor.author | Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | [Harmondsworth, UK] |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:56:17Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:56:17Z |
| dc.date.created | 1961 |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-03-14 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1672 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1672 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1672 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (2 files : ca. 172, 1 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Political ethics |
| dc.subject.other | Politics |
| dc.title | The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 181778 |
| files.count | 3 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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LETTER FROM NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI TO THE MAGNIFICENT LORENZO DE'
MEDICI.
Men who are anxious to win the favour of a Prince nearly always
follow the custom of presenting themselves to him with the
possessions they value most, or with things they know
especially please him; so we often see Princes given horses,
weapons, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments
worthy of their high position. Now, I am anxious to offer
myself to Your Magnificence with some tokens of my devotion to
you, and I have not found among my belongings anything as dear
to me or that I value as much as my understanding of the deeds
of great men, won by me from a long acquaintance with
contemporary affairs and a continuous study of the ancient
world; these matters I have very diligently analysed and
pondered for a long time, and now, having summarized them in a
little book, I am sending them to Your Magnificence.
And although I consider this work unworthy to be put
before you, yet I am fully confide . . .
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The basic text was rewritten from Niccolò Machiavelli's The
Prince, trans- lated by George Bull for Penguin Classics, and first
published in 1961. The version actually used was the 1975 reprint, ISBN
0 14 044.107 7
This version does not contain George Bull's INTRODUCTION nor his suggestions
about other versions. I suppose that George Bull has the copy right to the
text, though I see no big difference between this translation and previous
ones. I have tried to check the translation with Machiavelli's original from
Tutte le Opere (Sansoni, 1971) and it seems to have a fairly good correspon-
dance. . . .
