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Niccolo` Machiavelli was an Italian born in Florence in 1469, growing up in the ‘golden age’, during the rule of Lorenzo. His father was a Florentine lawyer, coming from a family with old fashioned values and middle class stature. In 1498, at the age of thir ....

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.... in them, Machiavelli began to write on paper his displeasure and advice he longed to give politicians. In November of 1512 his actions where restricted and a few months later Machiavelli was imprisoned and tortured, for suspect of conspiring against the new rulers, only later to be acquitted and released. Later Machiavelli had a brief return to public life when he received a grant from Pope Clement of Rome, for writing his History of Florence. Machiavelli died in 1527, leaving his family, according to his son, in poverty. In The Prince, Machiavelli offered a monarchical ruler advice designed to keep that ruler in power. It’s main theme is ....