Machiavelli's Daring 'Gift'

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online.wsj.com — It was a daring political move that the exiled Niccolo Machiavelli, his career in ruin, made in 1512 from his family farm south of Florence. He had sent a short treatise, "The Prince" as an offering of counsel.

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