The Art of War (Neville Translation): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Art of War (Neville Translation) by Niccolò Machiavelli: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 7:00:59 running time and a link to listen.
The Art of War (Neville Translation), credited to Niccolò Machiavelli, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Art of War (Neville Translation) by Niccolò Machiavelli. (Translated by Henry Neville.) Read in English by Clive Catterall The Art of War (1521) is the only book published by Niccolo Machiavelli during his lifetime, and he saw it as one of his finest achievements. The Art of War develops many themes introduced in Machiavelli’s earlier works “The Prince” and “Discourses” and presents them as the collected wisdom of a fictional leader Lord Fabrizio Colonna. The book is constructed as a series of dialogues supposedly held during a summer afternoon spent in the Orti Oricellari gardens in Florence. The stated aim is “To honor and reward virtue, not to have contempt for poverty, to esteem the modes and orders of military discipline, to constrain citizens to love one another, to live without factions, to esteem less the private than the public good, and other such things which could easily be added in these times.” As in “The Prince” Machiavelli develops the idea of limited warfare, where force is used as an extension of politics, but now also introduces elements of psychological warfare. In the first part of the book Machiavelli strongly warns that any state establishing a standing army must take special measures are taken to prevent military leaders gaining too much control. If the state ignores this it risks a military coup: something we still see today. The Art of War was a standard text on military tactics for three hundred years, only losing favour when developments in the range and accuracy of firearms made the Linear Tactics it described obsolete. This translation by Henry Neville was published in 1675 when The Art of War was still considered a practical military manual. - Summary by Clive Catterall
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Art of War (Neville Translation)
- Author credits: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 7:00:59
Catalogue topics
- politics
- war
- statecraft
- military tactics
Track guide
- 00 - Preface — 5:14
- 01 - Book 1 - Part 1 — 33:07
- 02 - Book 1 - Part 2 — 37:49
- 03 - Book 2 - Part 1 — 28:24
- 04 - Book 2 - Part 2 — 24:44
- 05 - Book 2 - Part 3 — 31:12
- 06 - Book 3 - Part 1 — 28:52
- 07 - Book 3 - Part 2 — 29:36
- 08 - Book 4 — 36:42
- 09 - Book 5 - Part 1 — 17:58
- 10 - Book 5 - Part 2 — 22:55
- 11 - Book 6 - Part 1 — 33:11
- 12 - Book 6 - Part 2 — 31:06
- 13 - Book 7 - Part 1 — 36:35
- 14 - Book 7 - Part 2 — 23:34
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