Political Realism
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The Invasions of Italy, Machiavelli and Guicciardini
http://www.ku.edu/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/04.html
Chapter 4 of the book "Renaissance and Reformation" by William Gilbert. Discusses the political climate and the two major thinkers.
Virt in and since the Renaissance
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhicontrib2.cgi?id=dv4-64
Jerrold E. Seigel writes about the concept and how it is used by Machiavelli and later thinkers. From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas.