... , scientist, architect, and engineer, to help design a system of canals that would divert the Arno River, crushing their enemy Pisa. Critics viewed the plan as fantasy (Masters 97). They recalled Filippo Brunellechi, an architect and engineer, seventy years earlier, who unsuccessfully flooded the city of Lucca. Lacking support from his government, Machiavelli, for a brief moment in history, set aside his classical ... ...

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