Quentin Skinner has written a "Very Short Introduction" to this person's work, while John Pocock's work on this thinker's "Moment" argues that he was a humanist.  
Quentin Skinner has written a "Very Short Introduction" to this person's work, while John Pocock's work on this thinker's "Moment" argues that he was a humanist.  The eighth chapter of one of his major works criticized the ruler Agathocles of Syracuse, while this thinker used the term fortuna to describe harmful external forces which could only be controlled if one possessed virtu – an expansive notion which included a moral "flexible disposition."  Leo Strauss called him a "teacher of evil," but Rousseau thought his most famous work was an expose of the immorality of rulers, and viewed the republican Discourses on Livy as most representative of his philosophy. FTP, name this "subtle Florentine," author of The Prince.
Quentin Skinner has written a "Very Short Introduction" to this person's work, while John Pocock's work on this thinker's "Moment" argues that he was a humanist.  
Niccolo {Machiavelli}