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Born in 1469 “Renaissance Man”--diplomat, political
philosopher, musician, poet, playwright, and civil servant (Florence)
Studied ancient Rome (virtù)
Italian city-states Foreign invasions
Ultimately—the “sack of Rome”—1527 (the same year of Machiavelli’s death)
Written in 1513 Written for the Medici
family Not published until 1532
(after Machiavelli’s death) The first purely secular
treatise on politics.