Ep347 - Quentin Skinner | Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
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Machiavelli: The Insider
Machiavelli's final phase of his life stems from Julius II trying to get the French out of Italy, allies with the Spanish. To stop Florence being sacked, they simply surrender. The Medici princes are returned and Machiavelli is out of a job permanently. He goes into retirement to his farm south of Florence. If you go there, I don't think you would complain. It's absolutely lovely house in San Andrea. So he is there until his death in 1527. And the outpouring of literary works, none of which, of course, he expected to write.
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