Read Niccolo Machiavelli's seminal text on Renaissance politics and the management of power chapter by chapter.

Excerpt from the first chapter of Machiavelli's "Discourses" describes how Romulus founded Rome and why the murder he committed was justified.

Directory provides links to several HTML and text files of Machiavelli's masterpiece "The Prince" on the Internet.

Read about the difficulty of the Roman conquests in this excerpt from the second chapter of Machiavelli's "Discourses."