On February 7, 2014, Dr. Harvey Mansfield gave a lecture at the University of Dallas entitled, "Machiavelli's Verità Effetuale."
Dr. Mansfield is a long-time, distinguished professor of Government at Harvard and has visited the University of Dallas several times; in fact, he was UD's McDermott Lecturer in 1984. The breadth of his teaching, speaking, and writing has established him as one of the leading scholars in political philosophy. Dr. Mansfield has written many books on a variety of topics and completed several popular translations, among which are both Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy" and "The Prince."