Charles

=Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli= = = = = =Here are a few details about my life:=


 * I was born on** May 3, 1469 – and i died on June 21, 1527 I was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet and playwright.i was born in Florence, the second son of Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli, a lawyer, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli. My family were believed to be descendants of the old marquesses of Tuscany, and to have included 13 Florentine gonfaloniers of justice I was a figure of the Italian Renaissance, and a servant of the Florentine republic. In June of 1498, following the ouster and execution of Savonarola, the Gr[[image:http://www.ctbw.com/IMG00001.GIF width="225" height="270" align="right"]]eat Council elected me as the Secretary to the second Chancery of the Republic of Florence.Niccolo Mawas one of the most influential writers of the Renaissance. Ibelieved that Italy could not be united unless its leader was ruthless.

I contributed to the Renaissance in the following ways:
This was my first book i wrote. //**Il Principe**// (//**The Prince**//) is a political book by the Florentine public servant and a political theorist which was i Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called //De// Principatibus it was written in 1513, but i didn't get it published until 1532, five years after my death. The book is not representative of the work published during my lifetime, but it was the most remembered, and the work responsible for bringing "Machiavellian" into wide usage as a pejorative term. I wrote the book prince because that was how i advised rulers to be kind only of it suited their purposes. Otherwise,i warned, it is better to be feared than loved.

//“You must know there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force; the first method is of men, the second of beasts; but because the first is frequently not sufficient, one must have recourse to the second. Therefore it is necessary for a prince to understand how to use the methods of the beast and the man. . . A prince. . . ought to choose the fox and the lion; because the lion cannot defend himself against traps and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves. Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the traps and a lion to terrify the wolves. Those who rely simply on the lion do not understand this.”// http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s25kX24j250 H**__ere is a video about the book prince and machiavelli__**

I think these contributions were particularly important because:
I wrote the book "The Prince" saying how rulers should rule. I was part of the leading council of Florence before the Medici came back and kicked him out. I believed that it was okay to do anything to get your goal no matter the moral consequences