<Li> European writers of 16th and 17th centuries </Li> <Li> <P> Title page of 1550 Italian edition of Machiavelli's The Prince </P> </Li> <P> Title page of 1550 Italian edition of Machiavelli's The Prince </P> <Li> <P> Bodin named on title page of Discorsi politici (1602) by Fabio Albergati who compared Bodin's political theories unfavourably with those of Aristotle </P> </Li>

Who was responsible for appointing the government of the new states