Machiavelli: Selected Political Writings (Hackett Classics)

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the dull, worthy, pedantic author who appears in the pages of other translations, says David Wootton in his Introduction. In the pages that follow I have done my best to let him speak in his own voice. (And indeed, Wootton’s Machiavelli does just that when the occasion demands: renderings of that most problematic of words, virtu, are in each instance followed by the Italian). Notes, a map, and an altogether remarkable Introduction no less authoritative for being grippingly readable, help make this edition an ideal first encounter with Machiavelli for any student of history and political theory.

• Mandragola
• Gorgias (Hackett Classics)
• On Liberty (HPC Classics Series)
• Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 (Hackett Classics)
• Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, ... Contract, The State of War (Hackett Classics)
• Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)
• Marx: Selected Writings (Hackett Classics)
• Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
• Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
• On Christian Liberty (Facets)