... in 1494, he served as a clerk, and four years later he was promoted to secretary and chancellor of the second chancellery of the Florentine Republic in 1498. As chancellor his duties included taking missions to foreign states, composing and summarizing reports, carrying on diplomatic correspondence, and executing the policy ... 1507-1508). One of his contributions to his state was in the military defense of the Republic of Florence. In 1510, he was inspired by his reading of Roman history, so he organized a citizen militia for the Republic (http://www.biography.com). He organized this cit...

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... . I also found this advice very appealing to read, because he backed up his theories with proofs from history. For example, he uses the Roman Empire as a strong ruling force that should be noted. The Romans always looked ahead and never postponed or procrastinated. They knew you could not ... also causing landslides and lowland sedimentation problems. (Alexander, 122) With a government that is weak on environmental legislation these problems will persist. Italy became a republic in 1946, and the king was exiled. The 1947 peace treaty deprived Italy of its colonies and considerable territ...

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... under the term because of how the word 'Machiavellian' is used today. Born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli was a diplomat for 14 years in Italy's Florentine Republic during the Medici family's exile. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512, Machiavelli was dismissed and briefly thrown in jail. He then wrote "The Prince", a handbook ... modern political theory." Though it was not the best of times for him, it gave Machiavelli time to widen his belief on politics. During that time he read book on Roman history and political treatises. "The main theme...

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