Presents a comparative and textual exploration of GramsciOCOs interpretation of MachiavelliOCOs political anlayses. This valuable contribution to our understanding of Gramsci includes a comparison of the major Machiavellian ideas such as the nature of political knowledge, the new principality, the concept of the people, and the relation between thought and action, to GramsciOCOs concepts of hegemony, moral and intellectual reform, and the collective will."