Niccolò Machiavelli█
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1469 - 1527
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📝 historian📝 philosopher📝 political theorist📝 military theorist📝 poet
📅 15th century📅 16th century
✨ High Renaissance

Knowing that power is seldom won or held by innocence alone, I have dedicated my quill to unmasking the subtle arts that move states and men.

Ask me about how fortune must be tamed, virtue must be strategized, or how, in the tumult of Florence, I learned the difference between the world as it is and as we wish it to be.

Some have called me cunning, others merely honest, but all who rule have read me—even if only in secret.