Machiavelli in the British Isles

Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli''s The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced before 1640, surviving in manuscript form. This study concentrates on two of the four extant sixteenth-century versions: William Fowler''s Scottish translation and the Queen''s College (Oxford) English translation,...