name: Niccolò Machiavelli
birth_date: 1469-01-06 00:00:00
death_date: 1527-05-22 00:00:00
genres: Politics, History, Nonfiction
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about: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The Prince) on the one hand and republicanism (Discourses on Livy) on the other.