The Prince - niccolo machiavelli

[KEV67]

Started reading this; well I read the introduction and a note on the translation by Tim Parks. My brother was into books about politics, so I sent him a copy one Christmas. He told me that although he knew I had sent it to him as a joke, he thought it was great. I had not actually sent it as a joke, because I had heard a lot about it, mainly on Radio 4. The introduction was to do about Machiavelli's life and times. Italian political history is weird.

[lunababymoonchild]

I read this, it's very good, imho

[KEV67]

How would you translate this into modern English:

"la fortuna è donna, et è necessario, volendela tenere sotto, batterla et urtarla."

 

[Calixtus]

Wow, I want to read this too, I wrote about a race of space rodents that were, as described by me, highly Machiavellian.