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True.

Machiavelli read much in Marcus Tullius Cicero's writings and was influenced by Cicero, but Machiavelli's claim to fame stems from his own writing.  His brief work entitled, The Prince, is looked upon as perhaps the first text of political science (as opposed to political philosophy).  The Prince described the workings of politics as Machiavelli observed how things happened in Renaissance Italy.  Machiavelli also wrote in the political philosophy vein with his longer work called Discourses on Livy, which examined the values of a republic-style government.