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Article: Patricide and the plot of 'The Prince': Cesare Borgia and Machiavelli's Italy.
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- American Political Science Review
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- December 1, 1994
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Machiavelli confronts his readers in The Prince with an ambiguous portrait of Cesare Borgia. This ambitious son of Pope Alexander VI--this ruthless new prince of the ...