ITALY AND THE RENAISSANCE Machiavelli was the first to sense this upheaval and ... In 1498, at the age of 29, "Messer Niccolò," as he was then called, was appointed second chancellor. A few weeks ...

That sort of activity has been called “Machiavellian,” after Renaissance writer Niccolò Machiavelli, who lived from 1469 to 1527. He wrote a notorious little treatise called “The Prince ...

The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political manual “The ...

Wrecking a national bulwark makes sense if Poilievre is fine with foreign assimilation. What would Machiavelli say?