The Prince argues that Machiavelli must have changed his mind dramatically in favour of free republics, after having written "The Prince". Translations The Prince The Prince ( ) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, "De Principatibus" ("Of Principalities"). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of "The Prince" in manuscript,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature correct literature such as Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985), Toni Morrison and Dan Brown, or with theories such as Marxism and Freudianism. The main body of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature", however, is focused upon an overview of the classic canon of English literature extending from Beowulf to Evelyn Waugh. There is another chapter after this discussing American literature from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Flannery O'Connor. Each chapter has: Along with these are a list of important themes to the classic canon of English literature, together with explanations why politically correct literature professors do not want