Machiavelli's Works
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Around Machiavelli’s time the papacy held much of the European power. Many popes held notoriously corrupt positions and mismanaged the entirety of Western Europe. They were the dictators during the Italian Renaissance. Not just religiously, but politically, militarily, and socially. They taxe ....
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.... Charles VIII of France took over. Niccolo Machiavelli, born in 1469 was elected to Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence.
After many power shifts the Medici eventually came back into being. Machiavelli was dismissed from his position and retired to San Casciano. Being charged with conspiracy, he was tortured but then released when Giovanni de Medici was elected to the papacy. He returned to San Casciano and wrote The Prince.
Machiavelli wrote The Prince to Giovanni ....
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