Niccolò Machiavelli is a 15th-century Italian political theorist best known for The Prince. The name is Italian, with the surname pronounced independently from the given name; together they form a historical figure’s full name. The pronunciation emphasizes the stress on the second syllable of the given name and a clear, lightly rolled final vowel in the surname. Overall, it denotes a famous author associated with pragmatic statecraft and political philosophy.
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