The Prince 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, controversy had swirled about his writings". Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the "mirrors
The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain Press between 1988 and 1991. Ford was a graduate of Cambridge University and had been Education Secretary to the Cambridge University Press in 1957-58. He had experience of editing large multi-volume works, having previously edited the "Pelican Guide to English Literature" in seven volumes (1954-61), and the new edition of that guide issued from 1982 to 1988. The guide was an ambitious attempt to give a picture of the arts as a whole in each age of Britain and to allow comparison between the ages and of how the different arts had treated the themes of their age. Ford wrote