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The ruthless Cesare Borgia was the model for this book by Machiavelli

Trivia about the prince

  • A chapter of this 1532 book discusses the Machiavellian career of Cesare Borgia
  • While Machiavelli was writing this, he was working on another book on how to preserve republics
  • This 1532 work is dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent, son of Piero de Medici
  • The rises to power of Cesare Borgia & Francesco Sforza, among others, are related in this 1513 work

Found pages about the prince