Commentary

• Machiavelli’s Prince and Its Forerunners: ‘The Prince’ as a Typical Book de Regimine Principum

  - Allan H. Gilbert. Machiavelli's Prince and Its Forerunners: 'The Prince' as a Typical Book de Regimine Principum. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1938.

• Studi sul linguaggio del Machiavelli

  - Fredi Chiappelli. Studi sul linguaggio del Machiavelli. Florence: Le Monnier, 1952.

• Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss

  - Strauss, Leo. Thoughts on Machiavelli. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1958.
  From the publisher: Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli’s doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it… More

• Machiavelli and the Renaissance

  - Federico Chabod. Machiavelli and the Renaissance. Translated by David Moore. London: Bowes and Bowes, 1958.

• Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy

  - J. R. Hale. Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy. London: English Universities Press, 1960.

• “The Idea of Liberty in Machiavelli”

  - Marcia Colish. "The Idea of Liberty in Machiavelli." Journal of the History of Ideas 32 (1971): 323-51.

• Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought

  - Martin Fleisher, ed. Machiavelli and the Nature of Political Thought. New York: Atheneum, 1972.

• “The Ferocious Wisdom of Machiavelli”

  - Conor Cruise O'Brien. "The Ferocious Wisdom of Machiavelli." In The Suspecting Glance. London: Faber and Faber, 1972.

• The Political Calculus: Essays on Machiavelli’s Philosophy

  - Anthony Parel, ed. The Political Calculus: Essays on Machiavelli's Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.

• Machiavelli in the Making

  - Claude Lefort. Machiavelli in the Making. Translated by Michael B. Smith. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2012. Originally published as Le travail de l'oeuvre Machiavel (Paris: Gallimard, 1972).

• “The Theme of ‘Gloria’ in Machiavelli”

  - Russell Price. "The Theme of Gloria in Machiavelli." Renaissance Quarterly 30 (1977): 588-631.

• Naissances de la politique moderne: Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau

  - Pierre Manent. Naissances de la politique moderne: Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau. Paris: Payot, 1977.

• “Machiavelli’s Unchristian Charity”

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

• Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the “Discourses on Livy”

  - Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders: A Study of the “Discourses on Livy”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
  From the publisher: Machiavelli’s New Modes and Orders is the only full-length interpretive study on Machiavelli’s controversial and ambiguous work, Discourses on Livy. These discourses, considered by some to be Machiavelli’s most… More

• “On Machiavelli’s ‘Mandragola'”

  - Carnes Lord. "On Machiavelli's 'Mandragola'." The Journal of Politics 41, no. 3 (1979): 806-27.

• Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli

  - Hanna Pitkin. Fortune Is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

• Machiavelli and the History of Prudence

  - Eugene Garver. Machiavelli and the History of Prudence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

• “How Original Is Machiavelli?”

  - W. R. Newell. "How Original Is Machiavelli?" Political Theory 15 (1987): 612-34.

• “Niccolò Machiavelli”

  - Leo Strauss. "Niccolò Machiavelli." In History of Political Philosophy, edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
  In the essay “Niccolò Machiavelli,” included in the third edition of History of Political Philosophy (1987), editor Leo Strauss offers a profound analysis of Machiavelli’s political theories. Strauss examines Machiavelli’s departure… More

• Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli’s Confidence Men

  - Wayne A. Rebhorn. Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli's Confidence Men. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

• On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy: Essays of Charles N. R. McCoy

  - Charles N. R. McCoy. On the Intelligibility of Political Philosophy: Essays of Charles N. R. McCoy. Edited by James V. Schall and John J. Schrems. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1989.

• Machiavelli and Republicanism by Bock, Skinner, and Viroli

  - Bock, Gisela, Quentin Skinner, and Maurizio Viroli, eds. Machiavelli and Republicanism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  From the publisher: This highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world’s foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli’s political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli… More

• The Machiavellian Cosmos

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

• Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature

  - A. R. Ascoli and Victoria Kahn, eds. Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

• “Machiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil” by Pierre Manent

  - Manent, Pierre, Rebecca Balinski, and Jerrold Seigel. “Machiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil.” In An Intellectual History of Liberalism, 1:10–19. Princeton University Press, 1995.
  Excerpt: How shall we begin? Where do we begin? The period preceding the establishment of liberal regimes is conventionally called the ancien régime—an entirely retrospective or negative designation to which another, positive or prospective one is bound to… More

• Machiavelli’s Virtue.

  - Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. Machiavelli’s Virtue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

• Machiavelli’s Virtue by Harvey Mansfield

  - Harvey C. Mansfield Jr.  Machiavelli’s Virtue. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  From the publisher: Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli’s Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli’s politics,… More

• Machiavelli’s Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed

  - Vickie B. Sullivan. Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996.

• Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction

  - Quentin Skinner. Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

• “Situating Machiavelli”

  - Paul Rahe. "Situating Machiavelli." Chap. 10 in Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, edited by James Hankins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• “Bruni and Machiavelli on Civic Humanism”

  - Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. "Bruni and Machiavelli on Civic Humanism." Chap. 8 in Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflections, edited by James Hankins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

• “Interpretive Essay”

  - Christopher Lynch. “Interpretive Essay.” In Niccolò Machiavelli, Art of War, translated by Christopher Lynch, 179–226. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

• “Arms and Politics in Machiavelli’s ‘Prince'”

  - Nathan Tarcov. "Arms and Politics in Machiavelli's 'Prince'." Chap. 8 in Entre Kant et Kosovo: études offertes à Pierre Hassner. Edited by Anne-Marie Le Gloannec et Aleksander Smolar. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2003.

• “Freedom, Republics, and Peoples in Machiavelli’s ‘Prince'” by Nathan Tarcov

  - Nathan Tarcov. "Freedom, Republics, and Peoples in Machiavelli’s 'Prince'." Chap. 8 in Freedom and the Human Person, edited by Richard Velkley. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2003.

• The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

  - J. G. A. Pocock. The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

• Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England

  - Vickie B. Sullivan. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• “The Roman Agrarian Laws and Machiavelli’s modi privati”

  - Eric Nelson. "The Roman Agrarian Laws and Machiavelli's modi privati." Chap. 2 in The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• Machiavelli and Empire

  - Mikael Hörnqvist. Machiavelli and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• 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).

• Publishing “The Prince”: History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

  - Jacob Soll. Publishing "The Prince": History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

• Machiavelli—The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance

  - Sydney Anglo. Machiavelli—The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli

  - Kim A. Sorensen. Discourses on Strauss: Revelation and Reason in Leo Strauss and His Critical Study of Machiavelli. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.

• “Law and Innovation in Machiavelli’s ‘Prince'”

  - Nathan Tarcov. "Law and Innovation in Machiavelli's 'Prince'." Chap. 5 in Enlightening Revolutions: Essays in Honor of Ralph Lerner, edited by Svetozar Minkov, with the assistance of Stéphane Douard. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006.

• Machiavelli’s Liberal Republican Legacy

  - Paul A. Rahe, ed. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• “The Problem of the Prince”

  - Eric Nelson. "The Problem of the Prince." Chap. 17 in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, edited by James Hankins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• Machiavelli: A Beginner’s Guide

  - Cary Nederman. Machiavelli: A Beginner's Guide. Oxford: Oneworld, 2009.

• “Of Conquest: An Interpretation of Chapters 3-5 of Machiavelli’s ‘Prince'”

  - Michael Anton. "Of Conquest: An Interpretation of Chapters 3-5 of Machiavelli's 'Prince'." Perspectives on Political Science 38, no. 1 (2009): 33-46.

• Machiavelli’s Ethics

  - Erica Benner. Machiavelli's Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

• “‘The Life of Castruccio Castracani’: Machiavelli as Literary Artist, Historian, Teacher and Philosopher”

  - Catherine Zuckert. "'The Life of Castruccio Castracani': Machiavelli as Literary Artist, Historian, Teacher and Philosopher." History of Political Thought 31, no. 4 (2010): 577-603.

• “The ordine nuovo of Machiavelli’s ‘Arte della Guerra’: Reforming Ancient Matter”

  - Christopher Lynch. "The ordine nuovo of Machiavelli's 'Arte della Guerra': Reforming Ancient Matter." History of Political Thought 31, no. 3 (2010): 407-25.

• The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

  - John Najemy, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli, edited by John M. Najemy, is a comprehensive anthology that delves into the multifaceted works and enduring influence of Niccolò Machiavelli, the renowned Renaissance political thinker. This volume assembles sixteen… More

• Machiavelli and Us

  - Louis Althusser. Machiavelli and Us. Translated by Gregory Elliott. 2nd ed. London: Verso, 2011.

• “Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding”

  - Steven Smith. "Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding." Chap. 7 in Political Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.