The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli. 2018.

The Princeshocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. Niccolo Machiavelli came to be regarded by some as an agent of the devil and his name taken for the intriguer “Machiavelli” of Jacobean tragedy. For his treatise on statecraft Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine republic, rejecting traditional values of political theory and recognising the complicated, transient nature of political life. ...