Which Italian thinker and "father of modern political science" wrote The Prince?

A. Leonardo da Vinci

B. Machiavelli

C. Dante

D. Petrarch

It was Nicholas Machiavelli.

Explanation:

He is the famous author of The Prince, a book full with advice and suggestions for how to rule a state. Machiavelli was from Florence and he lived in a time of constant conflicts and wars among the states of the Italian Peninsula in the 15th century.

Niccolò Machiavelli