The Life and Times of Machiavelli with Alexander Lee
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The Influence of the Medicis on Machiavelli
The Medici exercise control over florentine government in an unofficial capacity. They very, very rarely occupy any official role. And the fact that under this a sort of pseudo reign of the medicis florence was incredible. It was an absolutely astounding place to be at the time. How does this affect maki? Very well, a fects him in, i think, two ways. First of all, it illustrates to him that political authority in this period in florence is very much a matter of your relation s with a a large number of people.
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