Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy — J. R. Hale

Author: J. R. Hale
Publisher: The English Universities Press Ltd
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: Fourth impression, 1972
ISBN: 0340166495 / 9780340166499

Condition: Very good second-hand hardcover condition with dust jacket. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, minor edge wear, small corner bumps, and gentle handling marks. Binding appears firm and pages are clean with light age toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy is a concise historical study of Niccolò Machiavelli, placing his life, writings, diplomacy, and political thought within the turbulent world of Renaissance Italy.

J. R. Hale examines Machiavelli not only as the author of The Prince, but as a Florentine official, observer of war and power, and thinker shaped by the political crises of his age. The book explores his diplomatic and military missions, his exclusion from political life, and the conditions that led him to write the works that made his name synonymous with political realism.