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The Prince was a book written during the Italian Renaissance in a in a post-republic Florence. The Medici family, a powerful banking family, had regained power and began to punish everyone that supported the republic that threw them out of power, including the book's author Niccolo Machiavelli. After this, Machiavelli had a revelation about how government was truly run, and what made a leader powerful. His writings drastically changed political philosophy in Europe, and thus formed political philosophy in the New World. In essence, he believed fear was a more powerful tool for a leader than love, because people are fickle and greedy. The Prince is a collection of his ideas about how good government is run and what makes a leader strong. I have to do a report for school about how Machiavelli and The Prince impacted the Western World, and was wondering if anyone had read The Prince before or has any good information WITH sources. Thanks for anything in advanced.
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