The Prince & Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

by Niccolò Machiavelli

is a 16th-century essay on the psychology of obedience to authority. Its analysis of the structure of authority and the nature of man gives brilliant insights into the age-old conflict between state authority and individual rights.

Audio Cassette

Published January 1, 1986

About the author

The Prince , book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in
1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, a philosopher, musician, and poet, wrote plays. He figured centrally in component of the Renaissance, and people most widely know his realist treatises on the one hand and republicanism of Discourses on Livy .

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