Harvey Mansfield
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Professor of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Author of Machiavelli's New Modes and Orders: A Study of the Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli's Virtue, Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Modern Executive Power, and others.
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Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher and statesman, secretary of the Florentine republic, whose most famous work, The Prince (Il Principe), brought him a reputation as an atheist and an immoral cynic. From the 13th century onward, Machiavelli’s family was wealthy and…
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