Bacon admired this Italian author for writng about "what men do, and not what they ought to do"
[DOC] [TLE] Machiavelli and the Elizabethans | The Municipal Machiavelli [PAR] Mar 16, 2014 ... By the time of Gardiner's writing, Machiavelli had been denounced many times, 
by many ... intrigued, even by a writer which his fellow theologians like Pole 
denounced.