"The Duce Reads "The Prince": Machiavelli and Mussolini on Political Leadership"

• In Event: At the Cornerstone of Modernity: Machiavelli & Hobbes

Brief Overview

My paper offers a centennial reassessment, for intellectual historians and democratic theorists, of a darkest chapter in the Rezeptionsgeschichte of Machiavelli: the “Prelude on "The Prince"” by Fascist leader Benito Mussolini in April 1924.

Author

• David Ragazzoni, University of Toronto