Dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, it was written as an attempt by the author to gain public office.
Dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, it was written as an attempt by the author to gain public office. Some have argued that it was written as a cynical satire on the way rulers actually did behave and not as a serious recommendation of unprincipled despotic rule. For ten points, what is this 1513 Machiavelli work whose main premise is "the end justifies the means"?
Dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino, it was written as an attempt by the author to gain public office.
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