Niccolò Machiavelli

Tags: Philosopher.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Italian: [nikkoˈlɔ makjaˈvɛlli]; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian historian politician diplomat philosopher humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He was for many years an official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He was a founder of modern political science and more specifically political ethics. He also wrote comedies carnival songs and poetry.

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birth date

1469-05-03

birth place

Florence, Republic of Florence

death date

1527-06-21

death place

Florence, Republic of Florence

era

Renaissance philosophy

influenced

Baruch Spinoza, David Hume, Denis Diderot, Edward Gibbon, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, James Harrington (author), Carl Schmitt, Antonio Gramsci, Vilfredo Pareto, Giambattista Vico, Thomas Schelling, John Adams, Louis Althusser, Antonio Negri, Realism (international relations), Vincenzo Cuoco, Kenneth Waltz

influenced by

Cicero, Livy, Plutarch, Polybius, Thucydides, Xenophon, Sallust, Tacitus

LCCN Id

n/78/096105

main interest

Political philosophy, Politics, Military theory, History

philosophicalSchool

Renaissance humanism, Realism (international relations), Classical republicanism

region

Western philosophy