Abstract
The present book is a commentary on The Prince, the most famous work of the 16th-century political thinker Niccolo Machiavelli. The commentary itself represents the central part of the book between the second and the ninth chapter.
The commentary provides an analysis of each of the twenty-six chapters of The Prince. In addition to the commentary itself, the book also contains three chapters that deal with the question of the complicated origin of The Prince (Chapter 1), outlines various interpretive currents of Machiavelli's work (Chapter 10) and tries to answer the question why Machiavelli avoids the word "tyrant" in The Prince (Chapter 11).
The book also interprets Machiavelli within the realm of aesthetical political theory. The main theses of the aesthetic reading of Machiavelli's political theory are summarized in the book's final chapter.