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Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)
For other uses, see Machiavelli (disambiguation) and Macchiavelli (surname).
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli[a] (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine[4][5] diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince (Il Principe), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.[6] He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.[7]
For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is also important to historians and scholars of Italian correspondence.[8] He worked as secretary to the second chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.
After his death Machiavelli's
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Niccolò Machiavelli
1. Biography
Relatively little is known for certain about Machiavelli’s early life in comparison with many important figures of the Italian Renaissance (the following section draws on Capponi 2010; Vivanti 2013; Celenza 2015; Lee 2020) He was born 3 May 1469 in Florence and at a young age became a pupil of a renowned Latin teacher, Paolo da Ronciglione. It is speculated that he attended the University of Florence, and even a cursory glance at his corpus reveals that he received an excellent humanist education. It is only with his entrance into public view, with his appointment in 1498 as the Second Chancellor of the Republic of Florence, however, that we begin to acquire a full and accurate picture of his life. For the next fourteen years, Machiavelli engaged in a flurry of diplomatic activity on behalf of Florence, traveling to the major centers of Italy as well as to the royal court of France and to the imperial curia of Maximilian.
Florence had been under a republican government since 1494, when the leading Medici family and its supporters
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The Incredible Life of Machiavelli, Author of ‘The Prince’
Niccolò Machiavelli is often credited as the father of political science. His brilliant work The Prince played a massive role in the political operation of the last five hundred years. Though it is unclear whether the treatise was written as a criticism of the vices of rulership, or as an advice column on successful statecraft, the Machiavellian mind propagates brutal and at times immoral political operation — the ends of which always justify the cutthroat means. Let’s learn more about the man who wrote a political manifest famously kept at the bedside of Adolf Hitler.
Niccolò Machiavelli in Youth
Niccolò Machiavelli was born in 1469 in the Republic of Florence. Machiavelli shares his birthplace with another famous political thinker — Dante Alighieri — but he was born some two hundred years after the legendary poet. In the wake of the era of the Black Death, Florence became central to the rise of modern banking, which emerged after the pandemic. The rebirth of the city of Florence eventually led to the reb
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