Niccolo Machiavelli: The Father Of Modern Political Characteristics

It is best to be both feared and loved; however, if one cannot be both it is better to be feared than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was born during the renaissance era of Italy in Florence during the 15th century, on 3rd May 1469. Regardless of his cliché image of a cynic, or his name being directly synonymous to devil, Machiavelli did establish himself as an everlasting political figure. Often referred as the father of modern political theory, Niccolo lived years pulling of numerous duties such as that of a historian, diplomat, philosopher and writer. Irrespective of being born into an impoverished family, he did receive a par excellence education, being strictly trained and taught grammar and Latin.
In 1494, the Medici family
The growing popularity of Machiavelli’s influential words was taken as a threat and considered dangerous, hence in the second half of the sixteenth century many of his political papers were added to the Church Index of Banned Books. Machiavelli also authored Biographies (Life of Castruccio Castracani), Social history (The history of Florence) and one of the most famous play of the century, Mandragola. His personal, political and diplomatic experiences are described in his book Discourses on Livy, from a relatively methodical point of view. The book examines lessons of contemporary as well as ancient history. Machiavelli used his experiences combined with historical facts to produce, what according to him, were the ideal rules of a government.
Discourses on Livy has been viewed by many as a gateway to modern republicanism and hence it could be taken into consideration as a factual representation of Niccolo Machiavelli’s republican point of view, in contrast to The Prince, which depicts an inclination towards satire. However, this possibility does not defy the fact that Discourses on Livy does manage to incorporate unscrupulous
Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson adopted Niccolo’s republican strategies once they were threatened by an emerging aristocracy. John Adams was possibly the only Founding Father who deeply examined and valued Machiavelli’s political philosophy and research. His appreciation took the form of his treatise ‘A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America’.
Niccolo Machiavelli was an out of the ordinary man. What he saw was conveyed through his innumerable works, and irrespective of all the criticism he managed to gather, Machiavelli pinpointed the reality of a political environment. Though initially being associated with pejorative meanings, Machiavellianism has started to become a major topic of discussion between modernist intellectuals. Who he really was is still perhaps a mystery, but the fact that what he provided in his works on sustaining authority and command has effectively percolated into modern politics, cannot be easily disregarded.
‘Politics have no relations to morals’-Niccolo