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The Prince
The Prince is a political treatise by the Florentine Niccolò Machiavelli, written in 1513 after the return of the Medici had cost him his office, and published in 1532. Dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, it describes how new princes win and hold power, arguing that a ruler must sometimes act against conventional morality. Its frank realism made it one of the most influential and controversial works of political thought.
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