Niccolò Machiavelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian politician, writer and author

Date of Birth: 03-May-1469

Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany

Date of Death: 21-Jun-1527

Profession: writer, poet, politician, diplomat, historian, translator, philosopher, military theorist, political theorist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Niccolò Machiavelli

  • Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (, also US: ; Italian: [nikko'l? mmakja'v?lli]; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period.
  • He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.
  • For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs.
  • He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry.
  • His personal correspondence is of high importance to historians and scholars.
  • He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.
  • He wrote his best-known work The Prince (Il Principe) in 1513, having been exiled from city affairs. The word Machiavellian is widely used as a pejorative to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli advised most famously in The Prince.
  • Machiavelli proposed that immoral behavior, such as dishonesty and the killing of innocents, was normal and effective in politics.
  • He also notably encouraged politicians to engage in evil when it would be necessary for political expediency.
  • The book gained notoriety due to claims that it teaches "evil recommendations to tyrants to help them maintain their power".The term Machiavellian often connotes political deceit, deviousness, and realpolitik.
  • Even though Machiavelli has become most famous for his work on principalities, scholars also give attention to the exhortations in his other works of political philosophy.
  • His much less popular treatise, the Discourses on Livy, is often said to have paved the way of modern republicanism.

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