Niccolo Machiavelli He is a political man, historian and writer (1469-1527). His family was a middle class family who raised many bureaucrats to serve for Florence. He has done his education at home under control of a private tutor named Matteo and learned Latin pretty well. On March 1498 he entered to diplomatic work field; he was promoted as the second secretary of the Florence city state. After a year at this job, his first political work was published : Discorto Fatto al Magistrato dei dieciSopra le Cose di Pisa (The talks done by the officials of ten small states, about the problems at Pisa) . We meet the characteristics of