Italian diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli is best known for writing The Prince, a handbook for unscrupulous politicians that inspired the term " #Machiavellian " and established its author as the "father of modern political theory.

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò #Machiavelli. From his correspondence, a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus.