Niccolò Machiavelli

1469 – 1527

Philosophy & Thought

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.

Contemporaries

Vasco da Gama

55 yr overlap

Nicolaus Copernicus

54 yr overlap

Michelangelo

52 yr overlap

Leonardo da Vinci

50 yr overlap

Martin Luther

44 yr overlap

Ferdinand Magellan

41 yr overlap

Christopher Columbus

37 yr overlap

Raphael

37 yr overlap

Henry VIII

36 yr overlap

Suleiman the Magnificent

33 yr overlap

Their World