{"id":1,"date":"2012-12-24T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-12-30T16:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T21:50:15","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Municipal Machiavelli: The Prince Rewritten"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Machiavelli\"<\/a>This is an online version of a\u00a0book I wrote in 2012. <\/strong>My goal was to modernize Machiavelli’s famous work, The Prince,<\/em> and return its attention\u00a0to its original audience: municipal politicians. It has not been published in a paper version, yet, but I am still looking for a suitable publisher. I am also working on an e-book\u00a0\u00a0and iPad version should I not find a book publisher.<\/p>\n

I chose to publish it in this WordPress\u00a0format now because, after\u00a0recent events at the local level in my own municipality, I felt it was of great and growing relevance to the daily political business of municipal governance. I do admit to some tongue-in-cheekiness in my comments in these pages, however.<\/p>\n

2013 is the 500th anniversary since the\u00a0writing of The Prince <\/em>(it wasn’t published until 1532, after Machiavelli’s death)<\/em>. I felt it only fitting to update Machiavelli and bring back the audience he first wrote for. Municipal politicians are often overlooked when scholars dissect Machiavelli, and that’s a big oversight given who Machiavelli originally wrote for. I hope I can in some small way contribute to restoring him to his audience.<\/p>\n

This site is somewhat of a work in progress.\u00a0I am always tweaking with layout and design, so I apologize in advance if you find it changing rather too often.<\/p>\n

I have laid this site out using the chapters and sections of the book, including all of the prefatory material, addenda and bibliography. My chapters parallel Machiavelli’s own in The Prince<\/em>, although the chapter titles are somewhat different. It has approx. 65,000 words. I am still looking for some historical material through online booksellers, and may add content to the bibliography or additional quotations to the core material, in future. I have an outline for a chapter on Machiavelli and Rhetoric, too.<\/p>\n

I use many quotes taken from a wide range of sources to buttress both my own interpretations and Machiavelli’s own arguments – Han Fei Tzu, Sun Tzu, Napoleon, Robert Greene, Cicero and others. Quotations lifted from Machiavelli’s book have often been modified to make them clearer or to phrase them in more modern language. In doing so, I used many different\u00a0translations of his works to find the most appropriate wording, as noted in the bibliography.\u00a0More than 450\u00a0of the main quotes from the book are displayed in the sidebar quotation widget<\/p>\n

I take full responsibility for any misquotes, any mistakes, typos, misinterpretations,\u00a0and bad ideas.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I am working on a version\u00a0for e-book, iTunes and PDF. Please contact me if you would like a copy.<\/p>\n

This work is copyright 2012 under international law by Ian Chadwick. Please do not reproduce any part of it it\u00a0without prior permission, except as per fair use clauses and for reviews. Thank you for your consideration. I welcome your comments via email: ichadwick (at) rogers.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an online version of a\u00a0book I wrote in 2012. My goal was to modernize Machiavelli’s famous work, The Prince, and return its attention\u00a0to its original audience: municipal politicians. It has not been published in a paper version, yet, but I am still looking for a suitable publisher. I am also working on an … Continue reading “Welcome to The Municipal Machiavelli: The Prince Rewritten”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[7,5,4,75],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machiavelli","category-municipal-politics","tag-governance","tag-introduction","tag-machiavelli-2","tag-municipal-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":944,"url":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/how-to-read-the-municipal-machiavelli\/","url_meta":{"origin":1,"position":0},"title":"How to Read the Municipal Machiavelli","author":"Ian Chadwick","date":"May 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This site is designed to provide two things: my rewrite of and comments on Machiavelli's 1513 book, The Prince, and to provide space for recent posts and essays about topics related to Machiavelli and his position in politics, society and on the internet today. 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