The murderous Machiavel, as Shakespeare called him, has never ceased to be an object of hatred to moralists of all persuasions, conservatives and revolutionaries alike. |
He notes that Carew, though a murderous Machiavel, never betrayed his sworn allegiance as the rebel chieftains did. |
As to your Proteus, with all his aliases, I think he must be quite a Machiavel in artifice. |
The picture could be a physiognomical paradigm of a conspirator, a machinator, a schemer, a Machiavel. |