Edward Dacres translated Machiavelli's The Prince in 1640. Whitehorne translated Machiavelli's The Art of War in 1560. Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was a Florentine historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer during the Renaissance. Henry John Cockayne Cust (10 October 1861 - 2 March 1917) was an English politician and editor.