In an era when political campaigns are a mix of strategy, spectacle and survival, Machiavelli’s The Prince is a ...

Honest people get the short end of the stick. Kindness is repaid with ingratitude. If you speak the truth, you are treated as ...

Nicolás Machiavelli's phrase was born as a reflection on power and public perception, but five centuries later it also speaks to everyday life.

The name Niccolo Machiavelli is synonymous with political deceit, cynicism and the ruthless use of power. The Italian Renaissance writer called his most famous work, The Prince, a handbook for ...

Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most influential political thinker from the Italian Renaissance. Following the publication of his political theory masterwork The Prince in 1532, his name became ...

Machiavelli. Image: Flickr/Robert ScarthWhen politicians are described today as ‘Machiavellian’ the implication is that they are no more than cynical graspers at power for its own sake. Most ...

The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political manual “The Prince,” is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julius Caesar was the first tyrant of Rome, after which Rome was never again free. Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images That sort ...

You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed ...

Clues concerning Machiavelli’s thinking as to his own immediate personal path lie in one of the Italian Renaissance’s most beautiful—and in some ways most deceiving—letters, which he wrote to his ...

Few thinkers have been so widely quoted and so deeply misunderstood as Niccolo Machiavelli. For centuries, his name has been shorthand for political deceit—a man who supposedly preached that any act, ...