Title: Niccolò Machiavelli
Content: work to be printed in his lifetime was "The Art of War", which was about military science. Since the 16th century, generations of politicians remain attracted and repelled by its apparently neutral acceptance, or even positive encouragement, of the immorality of powerful men, described especially in "The Prince" but also in his other works. His works are sometimes even said to have contributed to the modern negative connotations of the words "politics" and "politician", and it is sometimes thought that it is because of him that "Old Nick" became an English term for the Devil. More obviously, the adjective "Machiavellian"

Title: The Art of War (Machiavelli)
Content: roof of a "palazzo" protecting the contents. Written between 1519 and 1520 and published the following year, it was Machiavelli's only historical or political work printed during his lifetime, though he was appointed official historian of Florence in 1520 and entrusted with minor civil duties. "The Art of War" is divided into a preface ("proemio") and seven books (chapters), which take the form of a series of dialogues that take place in the Orti Oricellari, the gardens built in a classical style by Bernardo Rucellai in the 1490s for Florentine aristocrats and humanists to engage in discussion, between Cosimo Rucellai

Title: John Gerard
Content: Linnaeus honoured him in the name of the plant genus "Gerardia". Gerard's "Herball" references many of the poisonous plants mentioned in Shakespeare's plays. Additional value has been placed on the "Herball" by students of literature. For example, the herb which produces the deathlike sleep of Juliet or Cymbeline may refer to nightshade, "Mandragora" or "Doronicum", all of them listed and described in the "Herball". It has been suggested by historian Mark Griffiths that the image of an unknown man, on the title page of the "Herball" is in fact Shakespeare himself. The art of describing the natural world through direct

Title: Jean-Baptiste Boisot
Content: of many of the Italian renaissance writers such as Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio in rare and copies of authors Vitruvius . Machiavelli and Baldassare Castiglione are widely represented, with 5 copies of the Prince and 5 of the Courtier. Educated man, he has sixty law books, 172 history, 70 of Medicine (Ambroise Pare, Vesalius ...) as well as works of astrology, astronomy and many aspects of science and issues of the time, such as " De revolutionibus orbium Celestium "of Nicolas Copernicus, however it also lacks the works of Ptolemy, reputedly at the time. The absence of some authors of the

Title: Niccolò Machiavelli
Content: Machiavelli aids Cesare Borgia and protagonist Nicholas Dawson in their dangerous intrigues in Cecelia Holland's 1979 historical novel "City of God". David Maclaine writes that in the novel, Machiavelli "is an off-stage presence whose spirit permeates this work of intrigue and betrayal ... It is a brilliant introduction to the people and events that gave us the word 'Machiavellian.'" Machiavelli appears as an Immortal adversary of Duncan MacLeod in Nancy Holder's 1997 "Highlander" novel "The Measure of a Man", and is a character in Michael Scott's novel series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" (2007–2012). Machiavelli is also one

Question: Machiavelli used which plant's name as the title of one of his books?
Answer: Mandrake