Commentary

• “Machiavelli’s Unchristian Charity”

  - Clifford Orwin. "Machiavelli's Unchristian Charity." American Political Science Review 72, no. 4 (1978): 1217-28.

• The Machiavellian Cosmos

  - Anthony Parel. The Machiavellian Cosmos. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

• Machiavelli’s God

  - Maurizio Viroli. Machiavelli's God. Translated by Antony Shugaar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Originally published as Il Dio di Machiavelli e il problema morale dell'Italia (Rome: Laterza, 2005).

• “Machiavelli’s Enterprise” by Harvey Mansfield

  - Mansfield, Harvey. "Machiavelli’s Enterprise." The New Criterion 32, no. 2 (October 2013): 4–10.
  In his essay “Machiavelli’s Enterprise,” published in The New Criterion, Harvey Mansfield examines the profound impact of Niccolò Machiavelli’s works, particularly The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, on the formation of the modern… More

Multimedia

• Harvey Mansfield on Niccolò Machiavelli and the Origins of Modernity

  - Conversations with Bill Kristol, Dec. 2015.
  Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield explains why we should consider Machiavelli not only the founder of modern politics but also a founder of modern science and economics. What was the character of Machiavelli’s critique of Christian morality? Why did he… More