ini after they were married in 1502, and several books that would earn him a reputation both as the First Great Political Philosopher of the Renaissance and as the innovator of a diabolical, unscrupulous, villainous, cruel, and vicious form of government (Stein, The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, p. 859).
             The Machiavellian philosophy of government is best embodied by his works in The Prince, written in 1513, which outlines what Niccolo thought to be the most effective way of governing a body of people. The Prince discusses different forms of government that have been and continue to be throughout the age of man and how a leader - called "The Prince" throughout his work - should conduct h
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