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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissanc

A vivid portrait of this extraordinary thinker, assessing his place in Western thought since the Renaissance.

Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a co

Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.

In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in society generally and