According to Niccolo Machiavelli, a prince should be gifted by the people with the best luxuries such as "cloth of gold, precious stones, and the like costly gifts." However, Machiavelli's gift to Prince Lorenzo Medici was his knowledge about the qualities of ruling, how to maintain and obtain power, and why. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to Lorenzo in hopes of ingratiating himself and securing a job. This book is titled The Prince and is still used today because the strategies that Machivelli described have been proven useful over time. The Prince has been successful and has become a popular political science resource. This essay will analyze the chapters within The Prince, summarize Machiavelli's main points, and discuss my opinions about his views and explain why I agree or disagree with what he has written.

The qualities that a Prince should have during his rule lead him to be...