The prince and the discourses
Niccolò Machiavelli (Author), C. E. Detmold (Translator), Max Lerner (Writer of introduction), Luigi Ricci (Translator), Eric Reginald Pearce Vincent (Editor)
Fifteenth-century Italian stateman Niccolo Machiavelli's famous treatise on the qualities and actions necessary for princes to gain and keep power, in which he holds up ancient Roman rulers as examples and shows why, for leaders of nations, "the ends justify the means."
Print Book, English, 1950
The Modern Library, New York, 1950