One of the advantages of the book about Niccolo Machiavelli is that there is no hint of the mysterious "Machiavellianism" that frightened many over the centuries. But there is a man - Niccolo Machiavelli, a Florentine official who lived a difficult life and did not receive with it what he more than got after his death - worldwide fame. He always acted according to the circumstances and assessed them in his own way. Given this, much becomes clear in his controversial creations. Christiana Gilles, a classical literature teacher, devoted herself to writing, preferring the theme of the Italian Renaissance.