The Sweetness of Power: Machiavelli's Discourses and Guicciardini's Considerations

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Book Overview

The question of order inspired two of the greatest political thinkers of the Renaissance--Niccol Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, whose major works on the nature of government are linked in an authoritative new translation. Political adversaries but nonetheless friends, Machiavelli and Guicciardini both reflected on ancient Rome and refined their conceptions of government with an eye to the political turmoil of their own Florence. Based on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087580618X
• ISBN13: 9780875806181
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher