Russell Price, who died in 2011, was Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lancaster. His other books include Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes (Cambridge, 1996), Liberty before Liberalism (Cambridge, 1997), Machiavelli (2000), Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Cambridge, 2008), Forensic Shakespeare (2014), From Humanism to Hobbes (Cambridge, 2018) and a three-volume collection of essays, Visions of Politics (Cambridge, 2002).

His two-volume study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 1979), was listed by The Times Literary Supplement in 1996 as one of the hundred most influential books published since World War II. He has been the recipient of honorary degrees from numerous leading universities, including Athens, Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. His scholarship, which is available in more than two dozen languages, has won him many awards, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Bielefeld Wissenschaftspreis and a Balzan Prize. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of many other national academies, including the Academia Europea, the American Academy and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Buy a discounted Paperback of Machiavelli online from Australias leading online. He was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University between 19 and Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge between 19. Booktopia has Machiavelli, A Very Short Introduction by Quentin Skinner. Quentin Skinner is Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London.

Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London In his treatment in The Renaissance of Machiavellis Discourses, Skinner never even mentions Machiavellis statement of intention or claim in the first proemium.

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