ThePrince is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelliinthe form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes. Machiavelli's Utilitarian approach to politics made him believe that religion and state are totally separate. State has its own morality and religion. Then, some of Machiavelli'sadvices to thePrince have been discussed from his book ThePrince. The book, a slender political treatise by the Italian Niccolo Machiavelli, was offered to Lorenzo de Medici as a sort of job application. Written in 1513, it was not widely published until 1532, five years after the author's death. Niccolò Machiavelli has a bad reputation. Ever since the 16th century, when manuscript copies of his great work ThePrince began to circulate in Europe, his family name has been used to describe a particularly nasty form of politics: calculating, cutthroat and self-interested. Armed with Machiavelli's analysis of this event, we can nowreadhis advicein chapter 16 of ThePrince in a different light. His injunction against liberality is intended to deprive Lorenzo of a tactic that had worked exceedingly well for the Medici inthe past. First page of “InfamousMachiavelli and "ThePrince"” Academia Logo.In his book, ThePrince, written in 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli argued for the autonomy of politics from religion and ethics, essentially creating the discipline of political sciences. InThePrince, Machiavelli openly discussed the advantages of skillful immorality. He was not immoral; instead, he advisedprinces to embrace political amorality, which encouraged virtuous behavior among subjects but accepted a rulership that transcended morality.