Niccolς Machiavelli's The Prince is a blunt political pamphlet concerning the various kinds of principalities, military affairs, the qualities of a Prince, and Machiavelli's views on Italy's political status during the Renaissance. Machiavelli uses many specific examples throughout the text both ancient and current to Renaissance era. To understand the book more completely and Machiavelli's reasons for writing The Prince, it is necessary to understand Machiavelli's life and the times he lived in. When Niccolo Machiavelli was born in the spring of 1469, Italy had attained a high spot in the European community, but it would not last. By the time Machiavelli had reached the age of twenty-five, King Charles VIII of France had driven the ruling Medici family out of the city of Florence, the last resisting Italian principality. The Florentines would not stand for thi....

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