The Prince – by Niccolo Machiavelli
Introduction : I read and reviewed “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli which was written over five hundred years ago. And, its really amazing to know how some books that are written so long ago are still relevant today. “The Prince” is one such book. I firmly believe we can use some of yesterday’s ideas to solve today's problem by reading others experiencess and their way of tackling problems . THE PRINCE by Niccolo Machiavelli is about: Niccolo Machiavelli worked in politics from 1498 to 1511, but his political career ended in disgust, with him being arrested and imprisoned for 25 days. Machiavelli refers to Lorenzo Medici as the Prince. In his forced absence from politics, Machiavelli …show more content…
But a man who has become prince against the will of the people and by the favour of the nobles should, before anything else, try to win the hearts of ordinary ones as they are the majority and will help him in a long run to come; this too is easy if he takes them under his protection by listening to their needs… it is necessary for a prince to have the friendship of the people; else it will be a problem in the coming ages and also he has no remedy in times of adversity.
Machiavelli was nicknamed “Old Nick,” another name for Satan, and the Jesuits called him “the Devil’s partner in crime.” While reading The Prince, I was often very shocked because some sections are very dark and unenlightened. However, once you get past that, it is filled with many parallels and contrasts to today. If you dig beneath the surface of what he is saying, the information can be transported to our time and used as a reference for fighting and tackling problems in our day to day life and also help others to solve theirs too, basically being a enigmatalogist.
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This particular kindle edition is fairly good. In addition to the text of “The Prince”, this edition also includes two shorter historical works by Machiavelli, "Descriptions of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino When Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini," and "The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca." Both additional books are basicallycase studies of how historical figures achieved success and new persona by acting according to the precepts which Machiavelli projects in the main body of the text, and as such are very useful and interesting convoy
Introduction : I read and reviewed “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli which was written over five hundred years ago. And, its really amazing to know how some books that are written so long ago are still relevant today. “The Prince” is one such book. I firmly believe we can use some of yesterday’s ideas to solve today's problem by reading others experiencess and their way of tackling problems . THE PRINCE by Niccolo Machiavelli is about: Niccolo Machiavelli worked in politics from 1498 to 1511, but his political career ended in disgust, with him being arrested and imprisoned for 25 days. Machiavelli refers to Lorenzo Medici as the Prince. In his forced absence from politics, Machiavelli …show more content…
But a man who has become prince against the will of the people and by the favour of the nobles should, before anything else, try to win the hearts of ordinary ones as they are the majority and will help him in a long run to come; this too is easy if he takes them under his protection by listening to their needs… it is necessary for a prince to have the friendship of the people; else it will be a problem in the coming ages and also he has no remedy in times of adversity.
Machiavelli was nicknamed “Old Nick,” another name for Satan, and the Jesuits called him “the Devil’s partner in crime.” While reading The Prince, I was often very shocked because some sections are very dark and unenlightened. However, once you get past that, it is filled with many parallels and contrasts to today. If you dig beneath the surface of what he is saying, the information can be transported to our time and used as a reference for fighting and tackling problems in our day to day life and also help others to solve theirs too, basically being a enigmatalogist.
For …show more content…
This particular kindle edition is fairly good. In addition to the text of “The Prince”, this edition also includes two shorter historical works by Machiavelli, "Descriptions of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino When Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini," and "The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca." Both additional books are basicallycase studies of how historical figures achieved success and new persona by acting according to the precepts which Machiavelli projects in the main body of the text, and as such are very useful and interesting convoy