The title identifies the work's subject as the first ten books of Livy's Ab urbe condita, which relate the expansion of Rome through the end of the Third Samnite War in 293 BCE, although Machiavelli discusses what can be learned from other parts of Roman history, as well.

Following an interpretation of power similar to that of Machiavelli, Foucault defines power as immaterial, as a " certain type of relation between individuals " that has to do with complex strategic social positions that relate to the subject's ability to control its environment and influence those around itself.

The early 16th century works of Machiavelli ( especially The Prince ) played a central role in popularizing the use of the word " state " in something similar to its modern sense.

The way in which the word state came to acquire this modern type of meaning during the Renaissance has been the subject of many academic discussions, with this sentence and similar ones in the works of Machiavelli being considered particularly important.

Machiavelli explained that in his time the Near East was again ruled by an empire, the Ottoman empire, with similar characteristics to that of Darius-seen from the viewpoint of a potential conqueror.

Machiavelli used the Persian empire of Darius III, conquered by Alexander the Great, to illustrate this point and then noted that the Medici, if they think about it, will find this historical example similar to the " kingdom of the Turk " ( Ottoman Empire ) in their time-making this a potentially easier conquest to hold than France would be.

* Platonism, the concept of a philosopher king in Plato's The Republic, a form of enlightened absolutism or the " benevolent despot ", similar to Statism and the concepts advocated by Thomas Hobbes and ( arguably ) Niccolò Machiavelli.

The later Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli commented that this was similar to the Florentine ' Ten of War ' that was eventually reinstated once the people realized it was the excessive abuse of authority that was despised, not the title or function of the office itself.

In addition, Njudge supports the play of Machiavelli Diplomacy, a game similar to standard Diplomacy but with significant rule changes.

Thucydides, Hobbes and Machiavelli are together considered the founding fathers of political realism, according to which state policy must primarily or solely focus on the need to maintain military and economic power rather than on ideals or ethics.

Machiavelli compares two great military leaders: Hannibal and Scipio Africanus.

* Daedalus, a play by David Davalos recounting Leonardo da Vinci's time as a military engineer to Cesare Borgia, in the company of Lucrezia Borgia and Niccolo Machiavelli

Bobbitt traces this perspective of military history via Thomas Hobbes and Niccolò Machiavelli to Thucydides.

In 1941, he co-edited with Edward Mead Earle and Felix Gilbert, on behalf of the American War Department, the book Makers of Modern Strategy: Military Thought From Machiavelli to Hitler, which was intended to serve as a guide to strategic thinking for military leaders during the war.

In the revival of military thinking and tactics that was a part of the Renaissance, military theorists such as Niccolò Machiavelli in his Art of War advocated a revival of the Roman legion and Sword and shieldmen.

" To these ends, Machiavelli notes in his preface, the military is like the roof of a palazzo protecting the contents.

Montaigne named Machiavelli next to Caesar, Polybius, and Commynes as an authority on military affairs.

Although in the seventeenth century changing military methods brought other writers to the fore, Machiavelli was still frequently quoted.

This continued interest in Machiavelli as a military thinker was not only caused by the fame of his name ; some of the recommendations made in the Art of War-those on training, discipline, and classification, for instance-gained increasing practical importance in early modern Europe when armies came to be composed of professionals coming from the most different social strata.

This does not mean that the progress of military art in the sixteenth century-in drilling, in dividing an army into distinct units, in planning and organizing campaigns-was due to the influence of Machiavelli.

* David Davalos's 2002 play Daedalus tells a fantasized story of Leonardo's time as a military engineer in the service of Cesare Borgia, in the company of Lucrezia Borgia and Niccolo Machiavelli.

Makers of modern strategy: from Machiavelli to the nuclear age.

The madman strategy can be related to Niccolò Machiavelli, who, in his Discourses on Livy ( book 3, chapter 2 ) discusses how it is at times " a very wise thing to simulate madness ".

In the early 16th century, Castiglione ( The Book of the Courtier ) laid out his vision of the ideal gentleman and lady, while Machiavelli cast a jaundiced eye on " la verità effettuale della cosa "— the actual truth of things — in The Prince, composed, humanist style, chiefly of parallel ancient and modern examples of Virtù.

The preface to Book I explains why Machiavelli wrote the Discourse.

Cicero also describes anacyclosis in his philosophical work De re publica, as well as Machiavelli in Book I, Chapter II in his Discourses on Livy.

* Martelli, Mario ( 1985 – 1986 ), “ Schede sulla cultura di Machiavelli ”, Interpres VI, pp. 283 – 330.

Cited in Chapter VI of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince ( Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One ’ s Own Arms And Ability ) Fra Girolamo Savonarola was seen by Machiavelli as an incompetent, ill-prepared, and ' unarmed prophet ', unlike ' Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus ' ( Machiavelli's The Prince )

In The Prince ( VI ), Machiavelli cites Hiero as an exceptionally virtuous man and a rare example of someone who rose to princehood from private station.

Historian Mark Phillips states that all subsequent Florentine accounts of the tyrannical regime of Walter VI of Brienne — including those by Leonardo Bruni and Niccolò Machiavelli — were based upon the primary source of Villani's Cronica.

* von Vacano, Diego, " The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory ," Lanham MD: Lexington: 2007.

" Machiavelli: The Renaissance of the Art of War ," in Edward Mead Earle, ed.

* von Vacano, Diego, " The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory ," Lanham MD: Lexington: 2007.

* The Art of War, Niccolò Machiavelli.

* The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli

Machiavelli very likely read Vegetius and incorporated many of his ideas into his own The Art of War.

Machiavelli dedicates the Discourses to two friends, Zanobi Buondelmonti and Cosimo Rucellai, both of whom appear in Machiavelli's Art of War.

The Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli remarked upon the battle in his book, The Art of War, where he critiqued Tigranes ' heavy reliance on his cavalry over his infantry.

Art of War ( Italian: Dell ' arte della guerra ) is a treatise by the Italian Renaissance political philosopher and historian Niccolò Machiavelli.

Art of War is divided into a preface ( proemio ) and seven books ( chapters ), which take the form of a series of dialogues that take place in the Orti Oricellari, the gardens built in a classical style by Bernardo Rucellai in the 1490s for Florentine aristocrats and humanists to engage in discussion, between Cosimo Rucellai and " Lord Fabrizio Colonna " ( many feel Colonna is a veiled disguise for Machiavelli himself, but this view has been challenged by scholars such as Mansfield ), with other patrizi and captains of the recent Florentine republic: Zanobi Buondelmonti, Battista della Palla and Luigi Alamanni.

In addition Machiavelli was not writing in a vacuum ; Art of War was written as a practical proposition to the rulers of Florence as an alternative to the unreliable condottieri mercenaries upon which all the Italian city states were reliant.

In the eighteenth century, the Marshal de Saxe leaned heavily on him when he composed his Reveries upon the Art of War ( 1757 ), and Algarotti — though without much basis — saw in Machiavelli the master who has taught Frederick the Great the tactics by which he astounded Europe.