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.

Literature

• 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), c1517, 1531.
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/

External links

• Collected works of Machiavelli (in Italian)