THE PRINCE

            
            
             Julius Caesar once said, "I came, I saw, I conquered." Niccolo Machiavelli' s novel The Prince, he envisions himself as a ruler and through his successes and failures at political strategy, he achieves greatness through his final achievement of writing a masterpiece. Although Machiavelli, lived through a turbulent time in history, three significant reasons for his notoriety become apparent: he was born into an established family which gave him power and wealth to position himself in a government office; he inspired future princes to rule more effectively through past history, man's morality and qualities man should possess; and his sense of rejection and strong desires to return to the political arena after inadvertently using technology over government. .
             Born into an established Florentine family in the late 1400's, Machiavelli enjoyed an affluent life. His father, a Florentine lawyer, provided his son with an adequate education from scholars and humanists. By learning to write and speak well, Machiavelli was able to communicate both intelligently and critically by analyzing complex ideas. Possibly encouraged and pushed by his, Niccolo achieve the best education in his time. From his biographical sketch, Fortune Is A River, Roger Masters, writes:.
             Niccolo's father kept a book of accounts that recorded his son at the.
             age of seven being sent to his first teacher. At eleven, his father.
             records his son being taught by a "maestro of abacus" and a year.
             later was learning Latin from a priest in the Chancery (Masters, 50).
             Niccolo ' s father encourage him to succeed in school but he strongly persuaded him into politics. Although he came from an established family in Florence, Italy, his father's powerful friends helped establish Niccolo in a position of the Florentine government. His first government job was secretary to the Council of Ten, an artery of Florentine's government that had responsibility for war and diplomacy.