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Niccolò Machiavelli

1469 - 1527

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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niccolò Machiavelli has received more than 12,730,009 page views. His biography is available in 142 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 136 in 2019). Niccolò Machiavelli is the 11th most popular philosopher (up from 12th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Philosopher.

Niccolò Machiavelli is most famous for his book The Prince, which is a guide for rulers on how to maintain power.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Niccolò Machiavelli ranks 11 out of 1,267. Before him are Pythagoras, Confucius, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Avicenna, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. After him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Augustine of Hippo, Heraclitus, Thales of Miletus, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Aquinas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1469, Niccolò Machiavelli ranks 1. After him are Manuel I of Portugal, Guru Nanak, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Thomas Cajetan, John Fisher, Rodrigo de Triana, Ishak Pasha, Elia Levita, Francesco Granacci, and Laura Cereta. Among people deceased in 1527, Niccolò Machiavelli ranks 1. After him are Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Diego Columbus, Juan de Grijalva, Christoph I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Charles de Lannoy, 1st Prince of Sulmona, Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Johann Froben, Felix Manz, and Catherine of York.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli ranks 12 out of 5,161. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), Archimedes (-287), Dante Alighieri (1265), Augustus (-63), Raphael (1483), and Antonio Vivaldi (1678). After him are Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Commodus (161), Thomas Aquinas (1225), Benito Mussolini (1883), Cicero (-106), and Giordano Bruno (1548).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli ranks 1. After him are Thomas Aquinas (1225), Parmenides (-501), Maria Montessori (1870), Empedocles (-490), Lucretius (-94), Zeno of Elea (-490), Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), and Tommaso Campanella (1568).

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