Author's Bio (see also Wikipedia)

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was the ultimate Renaissance man. Born in Florence, Italy, he came from a well-established family. The young Machiavelli was given a top-notch education, and he rose to success as a young man, serving as an ambassador. Machiavelli's era was filled with strife, and he witnessed internal battles for power between church and state and large-scale turmoil between Italian forces and foreign invaders. The young man's keen mind served him well as he took notes on the nature of power and control as well as the dramatic successes and failures of various leaders and nations. When the Medici family seized power in Italy, Machiavelli, as someone who had worked against them, was imprisoned and tortured. He escaped into seclusion at his family estate, and there he began to write The Prince, his treatise on leadership, and Discourses on Livy, a work on the history of Rome. The Prince lives on today as one of the most frank and cold-blooded works on the nature of power in all of political philosophy.

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