In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

This work, which compares fortune to a flooding river, stresses that fortune is the opposite of prowess. In chapter 19 of this work, Septimius Severus is said to emulate both a lion and a fox. This book, which distinguishes between hereditary and ecclesiastical principalities, was a follow-up to its author's earlier Discourses on Livy, which described the ideal republic. This book, which is dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, claims that it is better for a ruler to be feared than to be loved. For 10 points, name this political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli.
Social Science