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The Garments of Court and Palace: Machiavelli and the world that he made by Phillip Bobbitt is a fascinating history and commentary by the man Henry Kissinger called "the outstanding political philosopher of our time." The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often misunderstood work in the context of the time. He describes The Prince as one half of a masterpiece that, along with Machiavelli’s often neglected Discourses prophesies the end of the feudal era and describes the birth of the neoclassical Renaissance State.