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Niccolo Machiavelli was a famous Italian philosopher and politician of the Renaissance, who served as Secretary of State in Florence and was responsible for the republic's diplomatic relations.

His treatise «On the Art of War» is the only political work of Machiavelli published during his lifetime. This work is one of the best books on military affairs, along with Gaius Julius Caesar's Notes on the Gallic War and Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

But Machiavelli earned the greatest, special fame for his famous work The Prince, in which he attempted to formulate the general laws of political life, outlined the essence of the «craft of politics», as well as define the role and place of the statesman in Europe and Italy of the XVI century.

Translated into Ukrainian by Yaroslav Myshanych.