What is the reason for the bad reputation that the Florine politician Niccolo Machiavelli has acquired it really? What ideas related to politics and political creation actually present in his important actions? In the book "Machiavelli - a very short introduction", the British writer and historian Quetin Skinner on Machiavelli's journey in the world of politics, and responds to some of his controversial political views that he presented in the book "Al -Amir and Al -Marah", to its original context in the fifteenth century.