The Prince (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Stanley Bing, What Would Machiavelli Do?, Harperbusi-ness, 2000, 160 p.

  Bing satirically applies Machiavellian principles to contemporary corporate culture.

• Sebastian de Grazia, Machiavelli in Hell, Princeton University Press, 1989, 497 p.

  Biographical study that examines Machiavelli's life in terms of the ideas presented in The Prince.

• Harvey C. Mansfield, Machiavelli's Virtue, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, 371 p.

  Mansfield provides an insightful analysis of Machiavelli's concept of virtue.

• Vespasiano, Renaissance Princes, Popes, and Prelates: The Vespasiano Memoirs, Harper and Row Torchbooks, 1963, 475 p.

  These memoirs, which were kept in the Vatican library and studied only by scholars until the nineteenth century, provide readers with the background of Machiavelli's political career.