This exiled Italian statesman has a prototypical literary character named after him. Name that author of 'The Prince'.

It's no wonder Machiavelli had a literary prototype named after him. He believed that when it comes to cold, calculating, and cunning behavior, the ends justify the means. Machiavelli wrote 'The Prince', a political treatise and tale of 16th-century power. Likely, he wanted some of that power, himself, as he was an exiled statesman. Apparently, he rubbed the Medici family the wrong way.

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