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Machiavelli was the opposite of Machiavellian: he was a selfless patriot. When the Medicis exiled him from Florence, they ordered him to a hamlet in t…
Machiavelli was the opposite of Machiavellian: he was a selfless patriot.When the Medicis exiled him from Florence, they ordered him to a hamlet in the middle of nowhere in Tuscany. They were basically saying “go rot.”Everybody expected him to run off. Elites across Europe would have hired him in a heartbeat as a histo