Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most influential political thinker from the Italian Renaissance. Following the publication of his political theory masterwork The Prince in 1532, his name became ...

The Italian diplomat and philosopher forever changed the way we understand politics with a work that continues to be studied and debated today: The Prince.

Julius Caesar was the first tyrant of Rome, after which Rome was never again free. Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images That sort of activity has been called “Machiavellian,” after Renaissance writer ...

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The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political manual “The Prince,” is ...

There are very few philosophers who become part of popular culture, and often, if their ideas become influential, people don’t know where they came from. Niccolò Machiavelli, the great 16th-century ...

Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...

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Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a diplomat, civil servant, and political philosopher born in Florence during one of the most fascinating periods of the Italian Renaissance. His name has come down ...