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Machiavelli or Trotsky could not have scripted it better.
Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.
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.
If they're tired of feeling inferior to the latter task, I highly recommend my new book, What Would Machiavelli Do?
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.)