Question

Which Italian Renaissance thinker believed that Italy needed strong, even ruthless, leaders and wrote The Prince to show how rulers can keep power?

A.
Cosimo de' Medici

B.
Machiavelli

C.
Erasmus

D.
Cesare Borgia

Answer 1

Niccolò Machiavelli was the author of "The Prince", he himself being a political theorist, the work itself being seen as one of the first works of modern philosophy.

Answer 2

So the answer is B, Machiavelli.

Answer 3

thanks

Answer 4

Np.