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He wrote the world’s most famous manual on how to cheat and scheme your way to the top. But in real-life Niccolo Machiavelli was a caring family man who loved and doted on his six children. A new ...

Yet almost immediately following publication of The Prince in England in 1584, Machiavellian became a byword for cunning and unscrupulous pragmatism in politics. We find Shakespeare putting this boast ...

Alexander Lee’s biography is a great foray into the magnificent life and times of Machiavelli — the father of modern political philosophy Niccolò Machiavelli, the father of modern political philosophy ...

The man whose 1513 work The Prince stands as the foundational document of Western political science has ever since been excoriated for his worship of raw power or praised for his grasp of realpolitik.

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 ...