it’s a remarkably short book. the whole thing with introduction by translator and glossary of important people to know is less than 150 pages. and reading it in the modern age, it doesn’t seem near the scandal that it caused previously. if Machiavelli was a devil, he was at least an honest devil.
nothing very surprising in it, infamy and distortion aside much of it I already read quoted anyway. a related book is The 48 Laws of Power – wonderful read. I read it to know firsthand what it says, and as a counterpoint for the next book up: The Art of Happiness.
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