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Machiavelli wrote The Prince in an attempt to ingratiate himself with the Medici princes who had recently taken over the government of his native city, Florence, in the early sixteenth century (see the rather overstated flattery in the prefatory letter to Lorenzo deâMedici).
The book is The Prince, its author NiccolÃ² Machiavelli. Minus television and Twitter, it seems the techniques of ambitious ânew princesâ, as he calls them, havenât changed a bit. But why did Machiavelli write a whole book about them, peppering it with men who soared to power by greasing palms and exploiting weaknesses: Julius Caesar, Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia? Most people today assume that Machiavelli didnât just describe their methods, he recommended them â that he himself is the original Machiavellian, the first honest teacher of dishonest politics.