Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) was an Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. Smile. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. Outstanding. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic. - rub your stomach. He also wrote comedies, carnival songs and verse. - pat your head. In June of 1498, after the ouster and execution of Girolamo Savonarola, the Great Council elected Machiavelli as Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence. Now switch your hands. The only theoretical work to be printed in Machiavelli's lifetime was The Art of War, about military science. Stress relief. Since the sixteenth century, generations of politicians remain attracted and repelled by its apparently neutral acceptance, or even positive encouragement, of the immorality of powerful men, described especially in The Prince but also in his other works. one and done. Whatever his intentions, which are still debated today, he has become associated with any proposal where "the end justifies the means.”

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