Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine official and political theorist, whose Discourses argue that republics survive by returning to their founding principles.
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Author identity, lifespan 1469–1527 and bibliographic association with the Discourses.
- BnF — Machiavel
Author identity, lifespan 1469–1527 and bibliographic association with the Discourses.
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Second chancellor of the Florentine republic until the return of the Medici. The essay uses him for the argument in the Discourses about renewal, and describes him as the Renaissance's coldest reader of states.
In the essays
- For the Love of Law
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- Discourses on Livy
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