Niccolò Machiavelli
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Historical figure.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 may 1469 - 21 june 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death
In the Sherlock Holmes stories
- As a joke, Sherlock Holmes compared Dr. Watson's intellect as a Machiavellian one (VALL 108).
