What are /lit/'s thoughts on "The Prince" and Machiavelli overall?
>>7607330
Sort of related to this: I bought the Penguin version online before reading here that Penguin translations are shitty. Am I missing out?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/
https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbell/strauss.pdf
http://www.mmisi.org/ma/31_3-4/schram.pdf
top tier satire :^)
>>7607330
I really enjoyed it in the context of my political science class.
I really don't think about it much as a literary work though.
>>7607330
Castiglione was baser.
>>7607897
It's not like you're reading Machiavelli for the prose.
It's okay. A good insight into political history,fundamental work in some aspects. It's 1:45 am here so too lazy to type an essay, sorry mate.
>>7607330
I like some of 2pac's lyrics, Stirner did it better.
He got BTFO'd by Friedrich der Große
His Discourses of Livy are superior
