Machiavelli, Nicollò - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Biography
Hale, J. R. Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy. New York: Collier Books, 1960, 220 p.
Biographical and critical study of Machiavelli's life and works.
Criticism
Berlin, Isaiah. "The Originality of Machiavelli," in Studies on Machiavelli, edited by Myron P. Gilmore, pp. 149–206. G. C. Sansoni Editore, 1972.
Important essay that provides a comprehensive overview of Machiavelli's thought.
Burnham, James. "Machiavelli: The Science of Power," in The Machiavellians, pp. 29–80. New York: The John Day Co., 1943.
Discusses Machiavelli's goals, methods, conception of history, and reputation. Burnham argues that Machiavelli's principal aim was the unification of Italy and that he divorced politics from transcendental ethics in order to locate both politics and ethics in the "real world of space and time and...
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