Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli was a diplomat and statesman during the Renaissance period. ... ” Machiavelli also implies that a ruler who is feared may be more successful in keeping an unstable state together than one who is loved. Machiavelli’s work gave new meaning to the realities of power politics. ... Machiavelli was called the first political realist because he looked at the realities of politics, not the ideal Christian moral behavior that was spread through the Middle Ages.