Sovereign. Treatises, prose, letters

The book presents different aspects of the intellectual and creative heritage of the Florentine statesman and thinker of the Renaissance of Niccolo Machiavelli, including the famous political treatise “Sovereign”, which became his most famous composition, earned the author’s unkind glory and gave rise to the term “macquiavelism”, meaning cynicism , permissiveness and duplicity in politics, as well as complementing and clarifying many points of this work, the work “Reasoning about the first decade of Titus Libya”. The other political works of Machiavelli, examples of his dramaturgy and artistic prose and selected letters are also included. The publication is equipped with an introductory article and detailed comments