De principatibusNiccolò Machiavelli, Giorgio Inglese
De principatibus
by Niccolò Machiavelli, Giorgio Inglese · first published 1994
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The author misunderstands Machiavelli. Works like De Principatibus are meant to help "subversive" democratic efforts to recognize, reveal, and hence counter tyrannical strategies. Machiavelli was a supporter of democratic governments, which were rare and revolutionary…
on “On subversion and dissolution of opposition movements” ↗Machiavelli wrote De Principatibus to get a job with the Medici after losing his position when they returned to Florence. There are a lot of interpretations of the work but the simplest is that it's a manual for an autocrat and that Machiavelli…
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