“Let no one who has not been born a prince trust to being able to rule if by some great fortune he has attained a principality.”

About Francesco Guicciardini

Historian • Italian

Francesco Guicciardini was an Italian historian, writer, and statesman, and a friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli. Guicciardini is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. His most...