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Niccolò Machiavelli

Cary Nederman · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · 2023

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EstablishedMachiavelli served the Florentine Republic as Second Chancellor from 1498 until the Medici restoration of 1512; The Prince was written at the end of 1513 and published posthumously in 1532, and the Discourses on Livy were published in 1531.EstablishedIn the Discourses Machiavelli argued that the conflicts between the Roman nobles and people were the source of Rome's liberty rather than its ruin, and that a people is more prudent and stable than a prince.