The Prince
The Prince, written sometime in the early 16th century by Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), is widely considered to be the first book written explicitly as an examination of political science. Among the most original thinkers of the Renaissance, throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries his name would be synonymous with cruelty, deviousness, and purposefully destructive rationality. No political thinker was ever more demonized or misunderstood than Machiavelli. The main source of this misunderstanding, as well as the source of debate that continues to this day among political thinkers and historians, is Machiavelli’s most influential and widely read treatise on government, The Prince, a remarkably short book that attempts to lay out methods to secure and maintain political power. It seems that Machiavelli really had no strong political commitments, living more of the life of professional diplom
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Approximate Word count = 640
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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