The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli.
This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before then, in fact since the first appearance of The Prince in manuscrip.
However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli\'s death.
From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities).
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccol Machiavelli