The Historical, Political, and Diplomatic Writings of Niccolo Machiavelli Volume 2

The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and Thoughts of a Statesman sprang from the mind of Niccolo
Machiavelli, who was one of the first political philosophers of the modern age, and the most substantial since St. Augustine. In general parlance, The Prince is the book that is widely still remembered from his corpus, whereas his other histories and commentaries are largely understudied in the realms dealing with human society. The balance of The
Prince and Discourses is a thesis on the causality of success of republics and principalities that is still widely applicable to modern understanding. Machiavelli grounds his under-
standing of human behavior in ethics and the quality of the people themselves, while at the same time understanding the role and need for strong prince-like leaders at key points in history.
This is full folio reproduction of Christian E. Detmold's translation from his series on the works of Machiavelli published in 1882. The second volume of this work is faith-
fully transmitted here. Detmold's translation is both clear and close enough to our own language to be well understood. St. George Press is an artisanal and independent publishing house focused on the faithful reproduction of out of print classic works from East and West for their preservation and use.
The goal of these books is to cultivate and edit classical and seminal books of historical impor-
tance for use in the classroom.