Introduction to Machiavelli
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the prince does not give us the whole of Machiavelli's political thinking. It treated the most acute problem of Italy. It's inferiority in political organization and military strengths and year by states like span in France and was addressed to princes like the Medici to whom it was dedicated. The fact that he took no steps to publish it in his lifetime, even after it was plagiarized supports this view. It need not astonish us to recall that it became a handbook for aspirants to political power, and that when in the 20th century nation states themselves ran into a period of instability, it should again have been studied both my idealists and by political adventurers. For Machiavelli's reputation, it is unfortunate that it's so rapidly overshadowed all his work and became the one book upon which his reputation rests.