Bacon admired this Italian author for writng about "what men do, and not what they ought to do"
[DOC] [TLE] Niccol Machiavelli - Wikiquote [PAR] Original Italian title: Il Principe (written c. ..... Francis Bacon ... Few, however, have 
been persuaded to admire the models held up by Machiavelli, such ... technique, 
and it is with the technique of politics that Machiavelli, as a writer, is concerned.