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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 ....

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... and where defeated. He held office for fourteen years until the return of the Medici in 1512. Continuing to follow political affairs, denied participation 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 ...