Example sentences for: machiavelli

How can you use “machiavelli” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If they're tired of feeling inferior to the latter task, I highly recommend my new book, What Would Machiavelli Do?

  • In his masterpiece, The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli offers a rather pessimistic view on human nature, in which ‘love is held by a chain of obligation which, since men are bad, is broken at every opportunity for personal gain’.

  • There are some interesting older dedications, like Machiavelli's 32-line toadying exordium to Lorenzo the Magnificent in The Prince . (In Italian it probably ran longer.)

  • But even more, it proved, with the humanism of Leonardo and Michelangelo and the political realism of Machiavelli, to be the birth of our modern age.

  • It was Machiavelli, in fact, who invented the notion of disinformation , on which all contemporary politics crucially depends.


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