Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli was a Renaissance Italian diplomat, philosopher, and writer whose treatise The Prince is one of the most influential works of political philosophy ever written. Written in 1513, the book advises rulers on how to acquire and maintain political power, and its arguments about pragmatism, deception, and the relationship between morality and politics have been debated for more than five hundred years. Machiavelli's audiobooks offer listeners one of the foundational texts of Western political thought, as relevant and provocative today as when it was first written.