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Niccolo Machiavelli was a famous Italian philosopher and politician of the Renaissance, who held the position of Secretary of State in Florence and was responsible for the diplomatic relations of the Republic. His treatise On the Art of War is the only political work Machiavelli published during his lifetime. This work is one of the best books on military affairs, along with Notes on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar and The Art of War by Sun Tzu. But Machiavelli is most famous for his famous work The Prince (1513), in which he attempted to formulate the general laws of political life, to outline the essence of the «craft of politics», as well as to define the role and place of the statesman in Europe and Italy of the sixteenth century.