Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He wrote his masterpiece, Il Principe (The Prince) [Original title: De Principatibus / Il Principe], after the Medici had recovered power and he no longer held a position of responsibility in Florence. "Machiavellianism", is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described in The Prince.

Literature

Books

• The Prince, 1532.
• The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy), c. 1517, 1531
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/

Link

• Machiavelli on Wiki
• Works of Machiavelli (Italian and English text)