Journalist Stacey Vanek Smith believes today's women, who remain a small share of CEOs and board members, should consult Machiavelli's works for tips on getting ahead. "He was never the person in the ...

Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, political thinker and writer born in Florence in 1469 during the Renaissance. He spent years working in the Florentine Republic, dealing with foreign ...

The name Niccolo Machiavelli is synonymous with political deceit, cynicism and the ruthless use of power. The Italian Renaissance writer called his most famous work, The Prince, a handbook for ...

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is probably the world’s best-known political scientist. His fame is such that his name functions as an adjective to denote cunning and unscrupulous behaviour devised to ...

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Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World, by Harvey C. Mansfield (Cambridge University Press, 298 pp., $34.99) Harvey Mansfield, not known for timidity, has characteristically titled ...

Once again, with the assistance of the spirit medium in Florence, I was able to summon the great political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli from the netherworld where he mournfully dwells. Our previous ...

New Zealand’s Trade Agreement With India Reflects a Foreign Policy Shift Ryan Mitchell wrote a fascinating piece for The Diplomat entitled “Is ‘China’s Machiavelli’ Now its Most Important Philosopher?

In a separate volume of the same Eminent Lives series as this book, Bill Bryson warned against trying to reconstruct Shakespeare from the works. The comedies would point in one direction, the ...