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

Machiavelli was no exception; his father, a keen scholar, had ensured that the young Niccolò was educated in the best traditions of Renaissance humanism.

In his book Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Quentin Skinner, perhaps the foremost contemporary scholar of modern republicanism, relates how the renowned republican thinker Niccolò ...

Florentine renaissance man Niccolo Machiavelli has made quite a name for himself in the 500 years since he laid out his ideas. A poet, philosopher, musician, and playwrite, Machiavelli wrote The ...

The city of Florence is marking the 500th anniversary of Niccolo Machiavelli's political guidebook "The Prince." A piece of history relating to Machiavelli's arrest was just uncovered.

Savonarola corrected him. 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 rare first edition of Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli's political treatise, The Prince,' is set to go under the hammer at an estimated value of up to £300,000 (around Rs 3.18 ...

No, these are not the sayings of Buddha. They are aphorisms from diplomat and writer Niccolò Machiavelli’s 1532 classic of realpolitik and power-grabbing, “The Prince.” ...

In "Niccolo's Smile," a new biography of Machiavelli, Princeton professor Maurizio Viroli challenges the myth, depicting the 16th century political philosopher not as Draconian and power hungry ...

What would the shade of Niccolò Machiavelli—Renaissance Italy’s theorist of bare-knuckles statecraft—make of these developments?