Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a Florentine statesman, Italian political theorist and writer who advocated a strong central government. His famous treatise, The Prince (1513), describes the achievement and maintenance of power by a determined ruler indifferent to moral considerations. (M 46111) _ _.
Discovered on 7-12-1999 in Fountain Hills by Juels, C. W.