Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian historian, philosopher, writer, politician and diplomatic. He based his knowledge on the vernacular literary tradition and the Latin classics, using them not in a formal way but as models of life and political behaviour. Machiavelli was against the ideas of Savonarola, the very strict Dominican friar of the city of Florence, who had an important power during the rule of Lorenzo de' Medici. Years after Savonarola’s death (1498), Machiavelli became Secretary of the Second Chancellery of the Florentine republic. He was responsible of the correspondence related to the administration of the state and foreign relations which will allow him to do several international diplomatic trips. He went
