Modern states mirror the Roman republic in terms of states affairs, political process, and statecraft. Around the time Machiavelli was writing The Prince, the study on Roman politics was underdeveloped, as more attention was paid toward humanism. Much of the study of the Roman republics was devoted to the arts and literature and was second only to the Bible in popularity. Machiavelli set out to understand Roman political history and he was the first truly modern theorist of republicanism and grandfather of political realism.
Machiavelli fantasized in many respects about the virtues of the ancients and did so to critique his own age, rather like Nietzsche would do over three hundred and fifty years later. Yet with dictatorship, he did produce
Machiavelli fantasized in many respects about the virtues of the ancients and did so to critique his own age, rather like Nietzsche would do over three hundred and fifty years later. Yet with dictatorship, he did produce