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Florentine diplomat and writer · 1469–1527 · Leadership & Politics
Ran Florentine diplomacy for fourteen years, was tortured when the Medici returned, and wrote The Prince from a farm trying to get his job back.
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“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two must be wanting.”
Machiavelli, The Prince XVII
Machiavelli served the Florentine republic as second chancellor and diplomat, riding on missions to Louis XII, the Emperor Maximilian and Cesare Borgia, whose ruthlessness impressed and unsettled him. He also organised a citizen militia, distrusting mercenaries. When the Medici retook Florence in 1512 he lost everything, was accused of conspiracy, and was racked six times before being released. Exiled to a small property at Sant'Andrea, he wrote The Prince as a study of how power is actually taken and held, dedicated it to a Medici in the hope of employment, and got nothing. The Discourses on Livy, arguing for republics, is the fuller statement of what he believed.
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