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Papers from a conference held 6-7 December 2013 at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Niccolò Machiavelli, though best known as a teacher of princes, is also a teacher of republics. In his Discourses on Livy, he argues that republican liberty de

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

More than five hundred years after Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his landmark treatise on the pragmatic application of power remains a pivot point for debates o