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Renaissance humanism

Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli reveals more than style alone.

Florentine secretary who studies power as a practice before judging it as morality.

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The Prince is brief, circumstantial, and built from historical examples. The Discourses provide the essential republican counterpoint.

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The Prince is brief, circumstantial, and built from historical examples. The Discourses provide the essential republican counterpoint.

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