Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian statesman
and political philosopher. He was employed on diplomatic
missions as defense secretary of the Florentine republic, and was
tortured when the Medici returned to power in 1512. When he
retired from public life he wrote his most famous work, The Prince
(1532), which describes the means by which a leader may gain
and maintain power.
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the end he encourages Lorenzo de' Medici to finish what Borgia
had started and challenges the prince to save Italy from the
control of the barbarians. He concludes by quoting a line from a
poem by Petrarch that takes glory in Italian might.
" Virtue against fury shall advance the fight,
And it i' th' combat soon shall put to flight:
For the old Roman valour is not dead,
Nor in th' Italians' brests extinguished."
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