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
Andrew Niccol played "Young Nicolai" in the 2005 film "Lord of War") and Ava, born in 2008. Niccol has directed the films "Gattaca" (1997), "Simone" (2002), "Lord of War" (2005), "In Time" (2011), "The Host" (2013), and "Good Kill" (2014) (reuniting after 17 years with actor Ethan Hawke in a lead role; Hawke also appeared in "Lord of War" as a supporting character named Jack Valentine). He has also directed a short film entitled "The Minutes" (2012), which is a documentary-esque, narrative tie-in to "In Time" that describes in more detail the world and characters from the film. For his directorial debut