El Príncipe

The Prince, for many is the first modern treatise about the art of governing. Its author, Nicholas Machiavelli (1469-1527), spent more than a decade at the forefront of diplomacy For the Republic of Florence. Neither his ingenuity nor his negotiating skills freed him from political struggles, and the return of the Medici to his to his city led him to being abolished to exile. Our author was very knowledgeable, including how the royal power was exercised, and from this perspective he wrote h...