The History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy by Machiavelli

THE HISTORY OF FLORENCE is Niccolo Machiavelli's history of the Italian city-state from antiquity, through the Roman period, to the death of Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) in 1492. An accomplished statesman, Machiavelli is best known for his treatises on practical power politics, THE PRINCE and THE ART OF WAR.