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Essay / Metaphor of the lion and the fox in The Prince by Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli, The archetypal man of politics in history. He was born in May 1469 and died in June 1527. He was an Italian philosopher, thinker and writer. He was considered by many to be one of the founders of political science in modern times. He was a diplomat, in addition to being a political philosopher and a musician. In the Florentine Republic he was a civil servant. Then in 1498, he was elected secretary of the second Chancellery of the Republic of Florence by the Grand Council. When I hear Renaissance, I think directly of Leonardo da Vinci, as well as Machiavelli. He is known as an icon of the Renaissance man. He is best known for a political libretto Le Prince; he was written in 1513, but published only in 1532. After his great conceptual works, a method called Machiavellianism was launched under his name; it was the way of using cunning and deceptive tactics in politics. The Prince is the book that contains the metaphor of the lion and the fox. Velii uses the way to explain the theory of keeping faith in this book because it matters to t...