The name Niccolò Machiavelli is synonymous with the most devious use of power. The thrust of “Machiavellianism” is known even to people who have never read a word he wrote: Wielding power is not for ...
It takes a lot for a historical figure to be memorialized for nearly 500 years as an eponymous adjective. Still, Niccolò Machiavelli achieved that feat as the progenitor of devious political scheming.