Sentence:  Machiavelli begins chapter 26 by asking if the times are right for a "new prince" in Italy, one "prudente e virtuoso," like Borgia, like the profeta armato, like the hybrid <WSD>centauresque</WSD> monster to be composed of Machiavelli's counsel and Medicean power. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  By extension, having the characteristics of two things combined together; hybridized; chimeric.