Niccolò Machiavelli's is a blunt political pamphlet concerning the various kinds of principalities, military affairs, the qualities of a Prince, and Machiavelli's views on Italy's political status during the Renaissance. Machiavelli uses many specific examples throughout the text both ancient and current to Renaissance era. To understand the book more completely and Machiavelli's reasons for writing , it is necessary to understand Machiavelli's life and the times he lived in. When Niccolo Machiavelli was born in the spring of 1469, Italy had ....