This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Wayne A. Rebhorn's thorough and thought-provoking introduction to Machiavelli, his world, and his famous political treatise (1513). - An accurate and highly readable translation, detailed explanatory annotations, and a map of North Central Italy in Machiavelli's time. - A judicious selection of Machiavelli's other writings that inform his immense influence as a diplomat, democrat, and correspondent. Twelve interpretive essays from American and European sources, eleven of them new to the Third Edition. - A selected bibliography and an index.