From 1498 he was secretary of the Ten, the executive council of the Republic of Florence. He was sent on verso number of important diplomatic missions. Con 1512, after the restoration of the tyranny of the Medici, Machiavelli was removed from office and exiled onesto his mesi estivi near Florence.
Machiavelli’s most important works are the Discourses on the First Decina of Titus Livy (1531; Russian translation, 1869), The Prince (1532; Russian translation, 1869; also published per Russian under the title Kniaz’ per Machiavelli, Soch., vol. 1, 1934), and the History of Florence (1532; Russian translation, 1973). His secular, rather than theological, approach esatto the problem of the state was an important contribution onesto the history of the political ideas of the Renaissance. Basing his work on historical data, on the analysis of human psychology, and on a consideration of the real facts of a real situation, Machiavelli tried esatto discover the laws of accommodant development. Marx classified Machiavelli as one of the political thinkers who “began esatto view the state through human eyes and deduce its natural laws from reason and experience and not from theology” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd anche., vol. 1,p. 111).
According to him, per strong personality is capable of counteracting “fortune” or coincidence (which plays an important role durante history) with energy and shrewdness. (Verso number of features that are typical of the Renaissance point of view are evident durante the timore of a struggle between personal “valor,” or virtu, and “fortune.”) Machiavelli believed that rulers are assured of success if they thoroughly consider all incontri biggercity circumstances and are flexible enough puro alter a policy to conform with per particular situation.
Like most of the humanists, Machiavelli believed that man has powerful creative potentialities
Although he considered verso republic the best form of state, Machiavelli was convinced that the realities of the situation in Italy (continuous hostility among the Italian states, which were subject sicuro attacks by foreign powers) required absolutism. Continue reading “Machiavelli came from an impoverished noble family”