Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 1527

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Niccolo Machiavelli1469 - 1527

• I Life Florence Machiavelli
• II The Prince
• III Evaluation

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I Life Florence and Machiavelli

• 1378-82 popular guild regime
• 1382-1434 conservative principate
• 1434-94 Medici
• 1494-1512 republic
• 1512-27 Medici rule
• 1527-30 Medici expelled
• 1530 Medici return transformation into
  absolutist principate

• 1469 birth
• 1498-1512 ambassador of the republic
• 1512 tortured and exiled
• 1513 Principe
• 1513-20 Discorsi
• 1520-26 Istorie Fiorentine
• 1527 death

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Governance of the Medici

• Squittino - selection of those eligible for
  public office
• Borse names of candidates in the bag
• Balie special councils of governance

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Governance in Florence
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Niccolo Machiavelli1469 - 1527

• I Life Florence Machiavelli
• II The Prince
• III Evaluation

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II The Prince

• good men are always poor those who attain
  great riches and great power have attained them
  by means of either fraud or force
• Istorie Fiorentine III

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II The Prince

• For corruption of this kind and ineptitude for a
  free mode of life is due to the inequality one
  finds in a city, and, to restore equality it is
  necessary to take steps which are by no means
  normal
• Discorsi I. 17

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II The Prince

• I republics and principalities
• XV necessity
• XVIII fortuna
• XXVI virtue
• XXVI a new prince
• XXVI Italy

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Niccolo Machiavelli1469 - 1527

• I Life Florence Machiavelli
• II The Prince
• III Evaluation

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III Evaluation

• Realism
• Reason of state
• Crisis theory