Product Description: An elegant English version of La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which is both a key to understanding much of Montaigne and a major piece of early modern political thought. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkele...read more

Product Description: Comprehension of idiomatic expressions is vital in achieving fluency in a second language. Both English-speaking students of French and French-speaking students of English will find this dictionary invaluable in improving their conversational skill and an excellent word finder when they are reading popular newspapers or magazines in their second language...read more

Product Description: Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies delighted English-speaking audiences...read more

Product Description: Idiomatic speech undergoes constant change in all languages. Updated to reflect current informal written and spoken expressions in French, this pocket-size book presents approximately 2,000 idiomatic French expressions, followed up with their English translations and meanings.

Product Description: Near the end of World War II, four days after Allied armies landed at Normandy, a unit of Waffen SS troops en route to that front surrounded the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane and, without warning, systematically massacred its citizens...read more

Product Description: This volume contains two works by Renaissance writers: Machiavelli's "Discourses on the First Decade of Livy" and Guicciardini's "Considerations of the Discourses of Niccolo Machiavelli". Reflecting on Ancient Rome, both thinkers refined their conceptions of government with an eye to the political turmoil of their own Florence...read more

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Product Description: This volume presents a complete annotated collection in English of known personal correspondence to and from Niccolo Machiavelli. Spanning the years of Machiavelli's adult life, from 1497 until his death in 1527, this correpondence between Machiavelli and his friends, colleagues and compatriots - some of whom were the most influential thinkers of the day - presents a panorama of life, people and critical events in Renaissance Italy...read more

Product Description: Approximately 2000 French idiomatic expressions are presented, placed in model sentences, and supplied with their English meanings.

Product Description: Book by Machiavelli, Niccolò