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Niccolo Machiavelli

Niccolo Machiavelli was a political philosopher from Florence Italy. He lived

during the Italian Renaissance from May 1469 to 1527. This period in time that

Machiavelli lived was the "rebirth" of art in Italy and rediscovery of ancient

philosophy, literature and science. During this time in the Renaissance, Italy

was also involved in intense political conflict with dominant city-states of Florence,

Milan, Venice, Naples, the Papacy, France, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire.

Machiavelli was a man who lived his life for politics and patriotism. He created

many works such as The Prince, History of Florence, Art of War and Discourses on

the First Ten Books of Livy. Machiavelli is most famous for his political treatise,

The Prince which was written in 1513. After the writing of The Prince was exposed

to the public Machiavelli quickly grew a bad reputation, and was associated with

corruption and totalitarian......

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