In another work, this author discourages the use of mercenaries and makes frequent references to the personification of Lady Fortune.
The preface to one work by this thinker states that it has always been more dangerous to discover new countries than to found new institutions; that work argues that the defeats of the Samnites and Latins had more to do with skill than luck as the author deals with the titular Roman historian. In another work, this author discourages the use of mercenaries and makes frequent references to the personification of Lady Fortune. This author of Discourses on Livy warned the titular figure of another work to be both a lion and a fox. For 10 points, name this thinker, who advised rulers that "it is better to be feared than loved" in his book of advice to the Medici, The Prince.
The preface to one work by this thinker states that it has always been more dangerous to discover new countries than to found new institutions; that work argues that the defeats of the Samnites and Latins had more to do with skill than luck as the author deals with the titular Roman historian.
Niccolo (di Bernardo dei) Machiavelli