{"id":944,"date":"2013-05-29T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/?p=944"},"modified":"2013-05-29T07:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T11:17:00","slug":"how-to-read-the-municipal-machiavelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/how-to-read-the-municipal-machiavelli\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Read the Municipal Machiavelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This site is designed to provide two things:<\/strong> my rewrite of and comments on Machiavelli&#8217;s 1513 book, <em>The Prince<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>My book was written in mid-2012, intended for publication. I have, however, not found a publisher yet, so I wanted to make the work available to readers who have an interest in Machiavelli and interpretations of his works.<\/p>\n<p>The book is linked through the menus above, grouped by chapters that parallel the chapters in <em>The Prince <\/em>itself. Each chapter has its own page. Another menu includes the main appendices and addenda, including my bibliography. The &#8220;Misc&#8221; menu includes essays I wrote about Machiavelli, mostly after I wrote the book.<\/p>\n<p>The posts below are shorter pieces written as I continue my research online and find issues I believe are relevant to understanding Machiavelli, renaissance politics, modern issues and the problems of translating from other languages.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">This summer I expect to produce an e-book version for sale on iTunes and other online sites. For my biography and to read my other posts on issues not related to Machiavelli, please see <a title=\"My blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/\">my blog<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This site is designed to provide two things: my rewrite of and comments on Machiavelli&#8217;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. My book was written in mid-2012, intended for publication. I have, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/how-to-read-the-municipal-machiavelli\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Read the Municipal Machiavelli&#8221;<\/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":[17],"tags":[4,18],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-machiavelli-2","tag-updates-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1,"url":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/hello-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to The Municipal Machiavelli: The Prince Rewritten","author":"Ian Chadwick","date":"December 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Machiavelli&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Machiavelli","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/category\/machiavelli\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":898,"url":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/machiavelli-on-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":1},"title":"Machiavelli on Facebook","author":"Ian Chadwick","date":"March 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've set up a Facebook page for The Municipal Machiavelli at\u00a0www.facebook.com\/MunicipalMachiavelli. This is where I will post links to news stories, opinion columns and other online content related to Machiavelli. It's also a better site for comments and to start discussions about Machiavelli, The Prince and related topics. 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Vatter is professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has written about Machiavelli before. I've been reading it since its arrival\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and online resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and online resources","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/category\/books-and-online-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/machiavelli\/machiavelli-in-context-an-audio-course\/","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":4},"title":"Machiavelli in Context: an Audio Course","author":"Ian Chadwick","date":"February 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As an aficionado of The Great Courses, it's always a delight for me to receive a new set of lectures I can listen to in the car or when walking my dog. 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