Книги автора Machiavelli Niccolo
Название: The Prince
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
Название: The Prince
Жанр: Oxford University Press
Год: 2008
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'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. Machiavelli added a dimension of incisive realism to one of the major philosophical and political issues of his time, especially the relationship between public deeds and private morality. His book provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter in what era or by whom it is exercised. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that considers the true purpose of The Prince and dispels some of the myths associated with it.
Название: Mandragola
Жанр: Разное
Год: 2013
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Capolavoro assoluto del teatro rinascimentale italiano, la «Mandragola» è anche un amaro e disilluso ritratto di Firenze e dell'Italia del primo Cinquecento, abitata da uomini mossi dagli istinti più primordiali e privi di ogni determinazione morale o ideale. Ossessionato dal desiderio di paternità, lo sciocco messer Nicia si affida al sedicente medico Callimaco che, innamorato della bella moglie di Nicia, gli promette di guarirne la sterilità con una pozione di mandragola dalla letale (quanto falsa) controindicazione: il primo che farà l'amore con Lucrezia morirà entro otto giorni. E il primo sarà naturalmente Callimaco travestito, che Nicia stesso, gongolante, condurrà al letto della moglie. Una commedia insieme vitalistica e pessimistica, che il commento di Rinaldo Rinaldi illustra in tutta la sua poliedrica complessità.
