Bacon admired this Italian author for writng about "what men do, and not what they ought to do"
Neither doth learning admire or esteem of this architecture of fortune ... 
deceive with more advantage;] and the Italian thinketh himself upon the point to... [DOC] [TLE] The Impact of Niccol Machiavelli It is much safer to be feared than ... [PAR] political career in Florence, Italy that would lead him to write one of the ... Francis 
Bacon, British statesman and philosopher, wrote that We are much beholden to 
Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.