# The Garments of Court and Palace

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- Authors: [Philip Bobbitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-bobbitt)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2015-04-02

## Description

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics – and in particular the politics of power – ever written. In Garments of Court and Palace, Philip Bobbitt, a preeminent and original interpreter of modern statecraft, presents a vivid portrait of Machiavelli’s Italy and demonstrates how The Prince articulates a new idea of government that emerged during the Renaissance. Bobbitt argues that when The Prince is read alongside the Discourses , modern readers can see clearly how Machiavelli prophesied the end of the feudal era and the birth of a recognizably modern polity. As this book shows, publication of The Prince in 1532 represents nothing less than a revolutionary moment in our understanding of the place of the law and war in the creation and maintenance of the modern state.

## Editions

### The Garments of Court and Palace

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-689-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2015-04-02
- Language: en_GB