declann 's review for:

Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
4.0
informative reflective slow-paced

A very interesting read, more balanced than I expected from its reputation (although I'm sure Mein Kampf is also not just about genocide). Some genuinely intriguing concepts that would be interesting to translate into a 21st Century western democracy. 

Yet, quite a terrible translation actually, not just archaic at times but sometimes grammatically incorrect which broke the flow of the argument. Also it heavily relies on contemporary Italian examples from its sixteenth century context which sometimes became a little difficult to follow with all the names it expected me to know