You kidding right? Surely the project is about Machiavelli, as in Niccolo, author of The Prince... cos if schools is teaching cla**es on Tupac Amaru Shakur's alter-ego then shit changed madly since i was at school... admittedly a loooong time ago, but still.
Yo brother needs to learn to use the internet... wikipedia is often inaccurate but its free and a good starting point.
A project on Makaveli
....well maybe as a paper at varsity level... so is yo bro doing some sort of pop.cult. course?