Major Works
Commentary
Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss
- Leo Strauss. Thoughts on Machiavelli. Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1958.“The Ferocious Wisdom of Machiavelli”
- Conor Cruise O'Brien. "The Ferocious Wisdom of Machiavelli." In The Suspecting Glance. London: Faber and Faber, 1972.“The Theme of ‘Gloria’ in Machiavelli”
- Russell Price. "The Theme of Gloria in Machiavelli." Renaissance Quarterly 30 (1977): 588-631.“Machiavelli’s Unchristian Charity”
- Clifford Orwin. "Machiavelli's Unchristian Charity." American Political Science Review 72, no. 4 (1978): 1217-28.Niccolò Machiavelli: Storia del suo pensiero politico
- Gennaro Sasso. Niccolò Machiavelli: Storia del suo pensiero politico. Bologna: il Mulino, 1980.Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli’s Confidence Men
- Wayne A. Rebhorn. Foxes and Lions: Machiavelli's Confidence Men. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.“Machiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil” by Pierre Manent
- Pierre Manent. "Machiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil." Chap. 2 in An Intellectual History of Liberalism. Translated by Rebecca Balinski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.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).
Multimedia
Is Machiavelli a Moralist or a Realist?
- "Is Machiavelli a Moralist or a Realist?" Program on Constitutional Government Panel: Erica Benner (Yale); Michelle Clarke (Dartmouth); Clifford Orwin (Toronto). Harvard University, Cambridge, MA September 20, 2013.In September, 2013, the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University sponsored a conference on Machiavelli–timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s Prince. There were four panels in total. Panel 4 features Erica… More