Person record
Niccolò Machiavelli
Florentine official and political theorist, whose Discourses argue that republics survive by returning to their founding principles.
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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.
Links to
- wrote
- Discourses on Livy
Referenced by
- mentions
- For the Love of Law
Source: knowledge/people/niccolo-machiavelli.md
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