The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.
Although philosophers such as Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and contemporary experts think it was a satire, N.
Although it is relatively short, the treatise is the most remembered of Machiavelli\'s works and the one most responsible for bringing ``Machiavellian`` into wide usage as a pejorative term.
The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy.
The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli