The Prince By Machiavelli attempts to integrate Niccolò Machiavelli with the Medici family, who has just taken over Florence. The book lends itself to be almost like a how to guide, for princes who have gained their power and wanted to keep it. His primary argument is that a leader is there to make the difficult decisions that his subjects cannot make properly, not worrying about being liked or loved, but worried about being feared and respected. Virtù plays a large role in this argument. Fortuna is simply luck, whether good or bad; it takes more then just luck to be a good and successful Prince. With that being said, in some cases it only takes fortuna to rise to power, but in order to keep that power virtù plays a larger role. You need traits,
