MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO

Additional reading Quentin Skinner, Machiavelli (1981), a discussion of his life and major works for the general reader; Roberto Ridolfi, The Life of Niccol Machiavelli (1963, trans. from the Italian by Cecil Grayson), an informed biography; Pasquale Villari, Niccol Machiavelli and His Times, 2 vol., (1878; also published in Italian in 3 vol., 187782), still perceptive and fundamental, especially for the numerous documents in the appendix; Leo Strauss, Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958, reissued 1978), representative of the school that sees Machiavelli as a teacher of evil; Gennaro Sasso, Niccol Machiavelli, storia del suo pensiero politico, new ed. (1980), a complete study on this aspect of his thought; J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (1975), an important study of the development of civic humanism with special attention to Machiavelli; The Discourses of Niccol Machiavelli, trans. by Leslie J. Walker, 2 vol. (1950, reissued 1975), a basic translation.