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Art of War
From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20040401
Author:Mitchell, Benjamin
Art of War, by Niccolo Machiavelli. Edited and translated by Christopher Lynch. Chicago, September 2003. $25
Throughout bis career as a secretary and statesman in Florentine politics, military life fascinated Machiavelli. In 1521, the Art of War was published, and in the words of Sebastian de Grazia, it represented "a timely success that gives him a greater reputation for military than for political writing and rivals his fame as a playwright." In this modern version of Machiavelli's classic, Lynch offers a faithful and idiomatic English translation of the only major prose work that ...
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