At 29, he became head of the cancelleria and convinced Piero Soderini that a militia would be preferable to mercenaries.
At 29, he became head of the cancelleria and convinced Piero Soderini that a militia would be preferable to mercenaries. The best-known of his three plays is La Mandragola  or The Mandrake. In his Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy, he claims that Romulus was justified in killing his brother for the common good. His name today is widely equated with doing whatever acts are necessary to accomplish a goal, regardless of moral or ethical concerns. FTP, name this Florentine whose most famous work on  political theory is The Prince.
At 29, he became head of the cancelleria and convinced Piero Soderini that a militia would be preferable to mercenaries.
Niccolò Machiavelli