History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
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Wovon es handelt
Die Geschichte von Florenz, die Machiavelli zwischen 1520 und 1525 schrieb, von den Anfängen bis zum Tod Lorenzos des Prächtigen.
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Die Umstände der Entstehung machen ihre Eigenart aus: Sie wurde von Kardinal Giulio de' Medici, dem späteren Papst Clemens VII., in Auftrag gegeben — also von der Familie, die ihn sieben Jahre zuvor bei ihrer Rückkehr an die Macht hatte verhaften und foltern lassen. Machiavelli brauchte die Arbeit. Das Ergebnis ist ein Buch, das nicht lügt, aber sehr genau wählt, was es hervorhebt; es zu lesen und dabei zu wissen, wer zahlte, gehört zum guten Lesen. Die zugrunde liegende These lautet, die inneren Spaltungen von Florenz seien kein Zufall gewesen, sondern sein Getriebe.
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FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE DEATH OF LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT By Niccolo Machiavelli With an Introduction by HUGO ALBERT RENNERT, Ph.D. Professor of Romanic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylvania. PREPARER'S NOTE This text was typed up from a Universal Classics Library edition, published in 1901 by W. Walter Dunne, New York and London. The translator was not named. The book contains a "photogravure" of Niccolo Machiavelli from an engraving. INTRODUCTION Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tuscan family, his father, who was a jurist, dying when Niccolo was sixteen years old. We know nothing of Machiavelli's youth and little about his studies. He does not seem to have received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew no Greek.[*] The first notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding the office of Secretary in the second Chancery of the Signoria, which office he retained till the downfall of the Florentine Republic in 1512. His unusual ability was soon recognized, and in 1500 he was sent on a mission to Louis XII. of France, and afterward on an embassy to Cæsar Borgia, the lord of Romagna, at Urbino. Machiavelli's report and description of this and subsequent embassies to this prince, shows his undisguised admiration for the courage and cunning of Cæsar, who was a master in the application of the principles afterwards exposed in such a skillful and uncompromising manner by Machiavelli in his _Prince_. The limits of this introduction will not permit us to follow with any detail the many important duties with which he was charged by his native state, all of which he fulfilled with the utmost fidelity and with consummate skill.…