Quentin Skinner was born in 1940 and educated at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. He was appointed Regius Professor of History at Cambridge in 1996 until 2018. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of many national academies, including the Academia Europea.
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Niccolo Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has since become a byword for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner... SEE MORE