Niccolò Machiavelli
Step-by-step explanation:
Niccolo Machiavelli is the undisputed author of The Prince.
He was an Italian diplomat and a very influential person in the Italian court. He wrote this pragmatic and often touted to be controversial by modern standard book for the then reigning king of Italy.
He has been called the father of modern political science as he formulated statecraft like no one did in the renaissance period. He developed it as something that can be studied.