The following is a select list of readings in English to accompany the seminar series “Machiavelli up close: The Prince“
Atkinson, James B., and David Sices, translators and editors. Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence. Northern Illinois Univ Press, 1996.
Bock, Gisela, Quentin Skinner, and Maurizio Viroli, editors. Machiavelli and Republicanism. Cambridge Univ Press, 1990.
De Grazia, Sebastian. Machiavelli in Hell. Princeton Univ Press, 1989.
Gilbert, Felix. Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence. Princeton Univ Press, 1965.
Kaborycha, Lisa. A Short History of Renaissance Italy, 2nd ed. Routledge, 2023.
Kaborycha, Lisa. Voices from the Italian Renaissance, A Sourcebook, Routledge, 2024.
Najemy, John M. A History of Florence 1200–1575. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006.
Najemy, John M. “Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia: A Reconsideration of Chapter 7 of The Prince.” The Review of Politics, vol. 75, no. 4, Fall 2013, pp. 539–56.
Najemy, John M., editor. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli. Cambridge Univ Press, 2010.
Pocock, J. G. A. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton Univ Press, 1975.
Ridolfi, Roberto. The Life of Niccolò Machiavelli. Translated by Cecil Grayson, Routledge, 1963.
Skinner, Quentin. Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction. 2nd ed., Oxford Univ Press, 2019.
Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Vol. 1, The Renaissance, Cambridge Univ Press, 1978.
Viroli, Maurizio. Niccolò’s Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli. I. B. Tauris, 2001.
A partial list of recommended English translations of The Prince (in alphabetical order by translator):
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Translated by George Bull, introduction by Anthony Grafton, Penguin Classics, 2003.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince: With Related Documents. Translated and edited by William J. Connell, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Essential Writings of Machiavelli. Translated by Peter Constantine, introduction by Albert Russell Ascoli, Modern Library, 2007
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince and Other Political Writings. Translated and edited by Stephen J. Milner, J. M. Dent, Everyman’s Library series, 1995.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Bondanella, translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, Oxford Univ Press, 1984.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Translated and edited by Tim Parks, Penguin Classics, 2014.