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CampusNut.com: The Prince
Chapter-by-chapter plot summary and analysis, including Machiavelli's historical context.

The Devil's Morals: Ethics in Machiavelli's The Prince
Footnoted essay by Souvik Mukherjee. Asserts that in this work Machiavelli presents an opportunistic ethics of convenience.

Lecture on Machiavelli
A lecture on The Prince given by Ian Johnston in February 2002 at Malaspina University-College. The author discusses the ways to read, interpret and understand the work.

Samizdata.net: Book Review of The Prince
A review of the Prince as a weblog entry. Written from an "anti-statist" angle, by Andy Duncan.

Thoughts on Leo Strauss
A satirical weblog entry on Leo Strauss and Machiavelli. By Brad DeLong.

Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince
A concise overview of The Prince, with an emphasis on the book's ideas and life strategies that are most relevant to the general leader.

Machiavelli Was Not Machiavellian
David K. Fry argues that, as the title implies, Machiavelli is innocent of many things of which he has been accused. From the Italian American Web Site of New York.

Thomas Babington Macaulay: Machiavelli
An old essay in which the author tries to tackle the common prejudices related to Machiavelli. From Bartleby.com.

Salon Books: One Mean Renaissance Man
Annie M. Paul writes about Machiavellianism and the human sciences, for example sociobiology and psychology.

Isaiah Berlin: The Question of Machiavelli
An overview of Machiavelli's ideas and their different interpretations, written by Isaiah Berlin. From The New York Review of Books.






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