Sovereign

The treatise of the Florentine thinker and statesman Niccolo Machiavelli was written in 1513, but was published after his death. This book was the fundamental work of its time on the systematization of information about the state and its management. Machiavelli describes three forms of coming to power: the strength of weapons, luck and virtue. Since luck is not in the power of man, the author dwells on the power of arms and virtue, noting that one complements the other.