Machiavelli was a suck up

[ThaRealness]

I just started reading The Prince, and the irony is that the damn book was written as a gift to a politician

Such a bytch move on his part

 

[Shogun]

Right, but he was basically telling the Prince he was writing to to stop fukking up, and do shyt right. He had been exiled prior to and withstood torture.

Hence, the Florentine city-state and the republic was dissolved. Machiavelli was deprived of office in 1512 by the Medici. In 1513, the Medici accused him of conspiracy against the Medici family and had him imprisoned. Despite having been subjected to torture ("with the rope," where the prisoner is hanged from his bound wrists, from the back, forcing the arms to bear the body's weight, thus dislocating the shoulders), he denied involvement and was released after three weeks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli

far from a bytch

 

[ThaRealness]

Right, but he was basically telling the Prince he was writing to to stop fukking up, and do shyt right. He had been exiled prior to and withstood torture.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli

far from a bytch

Damn he was writing to a Medici? Those motherfukkers were vicious. I guess mayyybe he gets a pass...

 

[ThaRealness]

Right, but he was basically telling the Prince he was writing to to stop fukking up, and do shyt right. He had been exiled prior to and withstood torture.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccolò_Machiavelli

far from a bytch

Still, the fact that he wishes "great fortune" on a prince who had him tortured is questionable

 

[Shogun]

Damn he was writing to a Medici? Those motherfukkers were vicious. I guess mayyybe he gets a pass...

Yeah there's a lot if different interpretations of The Prince. Some think Machiavelli was really a Republican, and was satirizing Monarchy. Others think he was a Republican who recognized that small republics could not withstand the threat from the more powerful continental monarchies, and therefore had to emulate them in order to survive. Still others think he was just a ruthless monarchist. Its difficult to tell. Whats clear is several future influential rulers used his teachings.

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[zerozero]

So he was...


Machiavellian?

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

It was his job application

My professor had some materials that gave us historical/personal context to some of the prince and a great deal of it is actually a bit of ing against the medici