7- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Five years after the dead of the author, the book was published, although a version of it in Latin title “De Principatibus” was already distributed in 1513.
Niccolò Machiavelli’s is a16th-century Italian diplomat and political theorist and its book The Prince is one of the most popular and influential books ever written about politics.
Several times The Prince was claimed to be one of the first works of modern political philosophy, in which the truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal.
The Prince it was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics.
