In the early sixteenth century when Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince, Italy was not a unified country. It was instead a collection of city-states, each with its own ruler and ways of life. In addition, Italy was a political battleground; with the Catholic Church, France, and Spain, along with a number of inner kingdoms hungry for power. Thus machiavelli wrote a book dedicated to Lorenzo Di Medici explaining how to obtain power, and maintain it. From a citizen's point of view, Machiavelli…
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