Bernard Nicholas Maquiavel was born in Florence, in 1469, and also died in that city, in 1527. Descendant of one from the oldest Florentine families, he received humanistic education performed with care, and he dedicated to politics the optimum of its activity, having played numerous diplomatical missions, in diverse countries. He started his writer activity in prison, when he was arrested for political reasons. Its workmanship more chore is certainly " The Prince ", and she was dedicated to Lourenço de Médicis, patron of Maquiavel.