The statesman

The statesman is one of the basic treatises of political philosophy and European early modernism. Machiavelli's greatest work, from which the term Machiavellianism is derived, is a policy that uses the whole arsenal of means of struggle to achieve its goal. It was the table book of many politicians, including Emperor Charles V, Hetman Ivan Mazepa, the "founding fathers" of the United States, Napo...