Anti-Machiavel

Frederick II, King in and of Prussia, Elector of Brandenburg

• Enlightened absolutism
• Frederician Rococo
• History of the Kingdom of Prussia

Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century essay by Frederick the Great, King of Prussia and patron of Voltaire, consisting of a chapter-by-chapter rebuttal of The Prince, the 16th-century book by Niccolò Machiavelli. It was first published in September 1740, a few months after Frederick became king.