1. The life and thought of the Italian-German sociologist Robert Michels (1876–1936) has received increasing attention in recent years.1 Much of this renewed interest in him, however, has mostly fo...

The essay aims to analyse the relationship between ‘Caesarism’ and ‘modern prince’ in the Prison Notebooks. Capitalising on a historical-philological investigation of Gramsci’s prison writings, I intend to show how these two categories share a common political-conceptual background. Furthermore, the investigation of this theoretical junction illuminates the political reflection of Gramsci as a whole, by highlighting its being always in progress.

Andrew G. Bonnell’s new book is a welcome addition to the panorama of the Anglophone research in Intellectual History and History of Political Thought, foremost because it is the first English-spea...