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Maurizio Viroli, on his new book, Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece. Maurizio Viroli is Professor of Government at the University of Texas, formerly at Princeton. He is the author of several important books on Machiavelli: Machiavelli (1997); Niccolò's Smile (2002); The Meaning of Machiavelli (2009); Machiavelli's God (2010), as well as For Love of Country (1998).

Presented by The Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard on November 7, 2013.