An ideal prince is intelligent, strategic, powerful and strong. This ideal prince sounds like Callimaco in La Mandragola. He finds way to achieve what he wants and desires for. But in order to get what he wants, he finds others weaknesses and takes advantage of other people’s desires. To keep your land, you need to be dishonest and tricky. Callimaco used his trick to get what he wanted which was sexual pleasure and he was dishonest by telling Messer that the mandrake root will result pregnancy. To secure your leadership, you need to le and make your people believe in you and trust everything you say and do. For an ideal prince to get what he wants, he will not care about the consequences and will have no shame or regret for he does just like
