

He is the author of a number of books, including The Foundations of Political Thought (Cambridge, 1978), and From Humanism to Hobbes: studies in rhetoric and politics (Cambridge, 2018), and his scholarship has won him many awards, such as the Isaiah Berlin Prize, The Wolfson History Prize, and two awards from the American Political Science Association. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a foreign member of many other national academies, He was appointed Regius Professor of History at Cambridge in 1996, a post he held until he moved to Queen Mary University of London in 2008. Between 19 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, before returning to Cambridge as Professor of Political Science.

Quentin Skinner was born in 1940 and educated at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he is now an Honorary Fellow. Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary University of London Is his sinister reputation deserved In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the course of Machiavellis adult life, from his time as Second.
