Only one other contemporary of More's evokes so immediate and direct a response, and only one other contemporary work -- Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince.

Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).

Machiavelli attributes two episodes to Cesare Borgia that were at least partially executed by his father: the method by which the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.

* The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Education of a Christian Prince was published in 1516, three years after Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s The Prince.

In other words, Machiavelli was a sort of political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook titled, The Prince, which is about ruling and the exercise of power.

To improve the well-being of her subjects she studied architecture, agriculture, and industry, and followed the principles that Niccolò Machiavelli had set forth for rulers in his book The Prince.

Believing that people were motivated by self-interest, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 as advice for the city of Florence, Italy.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, written in 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.

One of the most important early works dedicated to criticism of Machiavelli, especially The Prince, was that of the Huguenot, Innocent Gentillet, whose work commonly referred to as Discourse against Machiavelli or Anti Machiavel was published in Geneva in 1576.

" Machiavelli: The Republican Citizen and the Author of ' the Prince '", English Historical Review Vol.

An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Machiavelli ( Da Capo Press ; 2010 ) 334 pages

* The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

A minority ( including Jean-Jacques Rousseau ) could interpret The Prince as a satire meant to be given to the Medici after their recapture of Florence and their subsequent expulsion of Machiavelli from Florence.

Julius features prominently in The Prince of Niccolò Machiavelli, both as an enemy of a leading protagonist of The Prince, Cesare Borgia, and as an example of an ecclesiastical prince who consolidates authority and wisely follows Fortuna.

By the time Machiavelli began work on The Prince, he had decided to refer to both aristocracies and democracies as republics.

The early 16th century works of Machiavelli ( especially The Prince ) played a central role in popularizing the use of the word " state " in something similar to its modern sense.

* The Prince is published five years after death of the author Niccolò Machiavelli.

* Niccolò Machiavelli writes The Prince.

He usually used the title " Proprietary Prince of Deheubarth " or " Prince of South Wales ", but two documents have been preserved in which he uses the title " Prince of Wales " or " Prince of the Welsh ".

Later examples can be seen in Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia and Samuel Butler's Erewhon, which uses an anagram of " nowhere " as its title.

Prince still frequently uses the symbol as a logo and on album artwork and continues to play a Love Symbol-shaped guitar.

The name's earliest known appearance in print is in Richard Grafton's Chronicle at Large ( 1569 ): Grafton uses it on three occasions, saying that " some writers name him the black prince ", and ( elsewhere ) that he was " commonly called the black Prince ".

For other uses, see Little Prince.

Rather than the motto used by the Prince of Wales ( i. e., Ich Dien, German for " I serve "), the Duke of Cornwall's Coat of Arms uses the motto " Houmout " ( meaning " honour " or " high-spirited "), derived from the Black Prince.

If she had remarried then the style Princess of Wales would also have lapsed ; similarly, because HRH The Prince of Wales has remarried to Camilla Parker-Bowles she is officially HRH The Princess of Wales, but because of the widespread use of the title and recognition of it by the British people formerly used by Diana, Princess of Wales, she uses the lesser title derived from her husband's Duchy of Cornwall and is known as HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, although she is legally also HRH The Princess of Wales.

As a British princess, Eugenie holds no surname ; however, as with the other male-line grandchildren of Elizabeth II, she uses the name of the area over which her father holds title, i. e. York ( as Prince Harry use Wales, per his father, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales ).

In the Harry Potter series, the character Draco Malfoy uses the Hand of Glory in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to escape the Room of Requirement.

Upon reaching the point at which the Dahaka is supposed to kill him, the Prince uses his knowledge of the encounter to have his younger self die instead, ending the mask's power and creating a grandfather paradox as well.

The Prince uses this move to steal the sacred flame of the temple, and then travels back to Persia on the magic horse statue.

Like 1963's Toei Animation studio release entitled The Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon ( Originally Wanpaku Ouji no Orochi Taiji ), it uses multiple angle and split screen shots to display action from multiple angles.

Whenever Prince Adam uses the Power Sword, and when he holds it aloft and says the magic words " By the Power of Grayskull, I HAVE THE POWER " he is transformed into He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe.

The Coast Guard uses this system to track vessels in Prince William Sound, Alaska, Vessel Traffic Service.

Before Farah can convince the Prince otherwise, the Vizier confronts the pair and uses his magical powers to trap Farah and the Prince in a tomb.

Enraged by his lover's death, the Prince uses the Dagger to massacre the last of the sand monsters in the tower and descends to weep over Farah's body.

The commone and most probable reporte is that the renouned Prince Robert Bruisse, King of Scotland, at such tyme as he banished B. Henrie Cheyne from his sea, and drave him out of Scotland beside, did command for to sequester the bishops yeerlie revenue to be imployed towards pious uses, and that this bridge ( which is lyke to be true ) was builted with a part of that revenue.

He was the brother of Lucrezia Borgia ; Giovanni Borgia ( Juan ), Duke of Gandia ; and Gioffre Borgia ( Jofré in Catalan ), Prince of Squillace.

* Scott, John T. and Vickie B. Sullivan, " Patricide and the Plot of the Prince: Cesare Borgia and Machiavelli's Italy.

* December 26 – Cesare Borgia kills Ramiro D ' Orco ; this incident is referenced in Machiavelli's The Prince

* Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalonier and Captain General of the Church, an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal.

Niccolò Machiavelli, author of The Prince and Discourses on Livy, served under him as second chancellor and as ambassador to Cesare Borgia, Rome and France.

It has been created at least four times: in 1498 for Cesare Borgia, in 1548 for Diane of Poitiers, in 1642 for Prince Honoré II of Monaco, and most recently in 1715 for Prince Jacques I of Monaco.

He was memorable as a hired assassin in Renaissance Italy opposite Welles's Cesare Borgia in Prince of Foxes ( 1949 ).