A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this vo

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559. Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime cha

Original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Machiavelli’s lengthiest and most challenging work.

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