The prince was written by Niccolo Machiavelli with the original title De Principatibus. The book was written in Florence, in its original language Tuscan also known as Italian. Even though the it was written in a traditionally written as a of political writing during the Early Middle Ages, Middle Ages and the Renaissance but what made it really great was it was written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature. The first copy of the book appeared in 1513 but the printed version wasn’t publicised until five years after the death of Machiavelli. Because Machiavelli had already passed the book was published with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII.
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"He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation." Niccolò Machiavelli
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli the author of the prince was born the third of May 1469 the third child and first son of attorney Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli and his wife, Bartolomea di Stefano Nelli. Unfortunately for Machiavelli he was born into an era which was unstable and switching fortunes. He served in a number of minor government positions, and was banished or imprisoned at various points of his career. One of his most notable positions was serving as a sort of political advisor to the Borgia family. The head of the family, Alexander Borgia, was Pope; the eldest son was Cesare Borgia, a bloodthirsty young warlord; the younger daughter Lucrezia was rumored to have poisoned her way through several husbands in order to stuff the Borgia coffers with golden inheritances.
Machiavelli formulated his own theory of effective government in his book "The Prince," and he based his ideal "Prince" on Cesare Borgia's life. He states through his novel that good rulers sometimes have to learn "not to be good," they have to be willing to set aside ethical concerns of justice, honesty, and kindness in order to maintain the stability of the state. Idea was shocking to contemporaries, who had inherited medieval ideas about divine kingship, in which the king was appointed by God for the express purpose of serving as a sort of celestial deputy on earth, upholding law and justice. In popular medieval belief, the king was thought to be a "primate," an avatar of human virtue with innate authority over lesser beings in the cosmological hierarchy. In contrast, Machiavelli argued that the most successful kings were not the ones who acted according to dictates of law, or justice, or conscience, but those willing to do whatever was necessary to preserve their own power. His title, "The Prince," in fact, it is mocking of the idea that rulers should be noble in their character. The implication of his title is that the idealized Prince Charming is a only a fairy tale. After Machiavelli expressed his views he was excommunicated yet his arguments had a profound effect on the renaissance and the government.
Machiavelli formulated his own theory of effective government in his book "The Prince," and he based his ideal "Prince" on Cesare Borgia's life. He states through his novel that good rulers sometimes have to learn "not to be good," they have to be willing to set aside ethical concerns of justice, honesty, and kindness in order to maintain the stability of the state. Idea was shocking to contemporaries, who had inherited medieval ideas about divine kingship, in which the king was appointed by God for the express purpose of serving as a sort of celestial deputy on earth, upholding law and justice. In popular medieval belief, the king was thought to be a "primate," an avatar of human virtue with innate authority over lesser beings in the cosmological hierarchy. In contrast, Machiavelli argued that the most successful kings were not the ones who acted according to dictates of law, or justice, or conscience, but those willing to do whatever was necessary to preserve their own power. His title, "The Prince," in fact, it is mocking of the idea that rulers should be noble in their character. The implication of his title is that the idealized Prince Charming is a only a fairy tale. After Machiavelli expressed his views he was excommunicated yet his arguments had a profound effect on the renaissance and the government.