Nicholas Machiavelli. First published Tuesday, substantial revision Wednesday. Why Machiavelli, This question could naturally and legitimately, Niccol Machiavelli born, Florence Italy died, Florence was an Italian Renaissance, Machiavelli clearly considers speech as the most appropriate method for resolving conflicts in the republican public sphere throughout the Speeches, debates, Famous Researchers and educators. Nicholas Machiavelli. Italian diplomat Niccol Machiavelli is best known for writing The Prince, a manual for 1. Unscrupulous Biography. Relatively little is known with certainty about Machiavelli's early life compared to many of the important figures of the Italian Renaissance on whom the following section draws. He was in Florence and became a student of a famous Latin teacher, Paolo, at a very young age. But Machiavelli, less known, can surprise. He was also an active defender of republican democracy. His Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius, often abbreviated as Discourses on Livy, were written and published posthumously. Drawing on its "free interpretation" of Roman history, according to an ancient tradition dating back to Aristotle, politics is a sub-branch of ethics, with ethics defined as the moral behavior of individuals, and the politics being defined as the morality of individuals. individuals belonging to social groups or organized communities. Machiavelli was the first theorist to definitively separate politics from ethics.