This text was partly inspired by Cesare Borgia, and it argues that it is better to be feared than loved.
This work cites an apocryphal story about Agathocles massacring the Syracusan senators as an example of "wicked means." This book contains an "Exhortation" to deliver a certain region from the barbarians, which appears immediately after it compares fortune to a flooding river. This book disagrees with Cicero's De officiis by arguing that one must "imitate both the fox and the lion" to have (*) virtu. This text was partly inspired by Cesare Borgia, and it argues that it is better to be feared than loved. For 10 points, name this political treatise dedicated to the Medicis and written by Niccolo Machiavelli.
This work cites an apocryphal story about Agathocles massacring the Syracusan senators as an example of "wicked means.
The Prince [or Il Principe; or On Principalities] &lt;JB Philosophy&gt;