Niccolò Machiavelli as Machiavelli had himself done, despite also explaining how they could sometimes work). This became the theme of much future political discourse in Europe during the 17th century. This includes the Catholic Counter Reformation writers summarised by Bireley: Giovanni Botero, Justus Lipsius, Carlo Scribani, Adam Contzen, Pedro de Ribadeneira, and Diego Saavedra Fajardo. These authors criticized Machiavelli, but also followed him in many ways. They accepted the need for a prince to be concerned with reputation, and even a need for cunning and deceit, but compared to Machiavelli, and like later modernist writers, they emphasized economic progress much more than
The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu Elders of Zion", an infamous Russian-made antisemitic literary forgery. There is an abundance of evidence that "The Protocols" were lavishly plagiarized from Joly's book. Italian writer Umberto Eco claims that in the "Dialogue" Joly plagiarized seven pages or more from a popular novel "Les Mystères du peuple" by Eugene Sue. The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu (in the original French "Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu ou la politique de Machiavel au XIXe siècle") is a political satire written by French attorney Maurice Joly in protest against the regime