Historian Ada Palmer’s examination of the Renaissance won’t be to everyone’s tastes, but she does bust some myths.

Explore the philosophical books that challenge your thinking and deepen your understanding of life, knowledge, and existence.

Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from ...

Niccolò Machiavelli, the great 16th-century diplomat and writer, is an exception.

Renaissance Comedy At W&L Washington and Lee University students in the Medieval and Renaissance studies program will present the “Mandragola,” a Renaissance comedy by Niccolo Machiavelli, this ...

MACHIAVELLISM is the name given to a doctrine which might be summed up as follows: The supreme law of politics is success. Politics, therefore, cannot recognize any moral law as binding. What is bad ...

Other notable citizens from Florence include the Renaissance artist Michelangelo and the statesman Niccolò Machiavelli. Architectural marvels are plentiful in Florence, including the Cathedral of ...

Niccolo Machiavelli, adroit but by no means omniscient diplomat of Florence, has really given himself an undeservedly bad name, says Author Roeder. In his famed book.

A review of Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth by Harvey C. Mansfield. When, twenty-eight years ago on the eve of his sixty-fifth birthday, Mansfield ushered into print a collection of the essays he had ...

Book Talk “On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics” with Gabriele Pedullà in conversation with Nadia Urbinati and Gareth Wiliams. Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still ...