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

  - Harvey C. Mansfield, 'Machiavelli's Enterprise,' The New Criterion, October, 2013.
  Excerpt: To create the modern world Machiavelli initiated a two-fold transformation of politics and philosophy that would bring them together: politics with the elevation of philosophy and philosophy brought down to earth. These two motions come together in… 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