Some scholars view Niccolò Machiavelli's book ''The Prince'' as a manual for tyrannical rulers on how they should acquire and retain power.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Giorgini |first1= Giovanni |title= Five Hundred Years of Italian Scholarship on Machiavelli's Prince |journal= Review of Politics |date= 2013 |volume= 75 |issue= 4 |pages= 625–640|doi= 10.1017/S0034670513000624|s2cid= 146970196 }}</ref> In comtemporary times, some scholars, such as [[Leo Strauss]], have reiterated the long-held opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher of evil".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Strauss|first=Leo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oi2GDwAAQBAJ&q=thoughts+on+Machiavelli|title=Thoughts on Machiavelli|year=2014|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226230979|language=en|page=9}}</ref> | Some scholars view Niccolò Machiavelli's book ''The Prince'' as a manual for tyrannical rulers on how they should acquire and retain power.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Giorgini |first1= Giovanni |title= Five Hundred Years of Italian Scholarship on Machiavelli's Prince |journal= Review of Politics |date= 2013 |volume= 75 |issue= 4 |pages= 625–640|doi= 10.1017/S0034670513000624|s2cid= 146970196 }}</ref> In comtemporary times, some scholars, such as [[Leo Strauss]], have reiterated the long-held opinion that Machiavelli was a "teacher of evil".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Strauss|first=Leo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oi2GDwAAQBAJ&q=thoughts+on+Machiavelli|title=Thoughts on Machiavelli|year=2014|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226230979|language=en|page=9}}</ref> |