Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World, by Harvey C. Mansfield (Cambridge University Press, 298 pp., $34.99). Harvey Mansfield, not known for timidity, has characteristically titled ...

An extremely rare first edition of Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous political manual “The Prince” is going up for auction, with an expected sale price of up to $375,000. CNN values your feedback 1.

As he hurries through the narrow streets of Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli muses anxiously that “slander can dig a grave for an honest man.” In Franco Bernini’s novel “The Throne,” the ...

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous ...

As Machiavelli explained in The Prince in 1532 when a disease begins, “it is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; after a time . . . it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.