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Machiavelli _ Classic Cloud 011

The author of Kim Kyung Hee

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Published on July 16, 2019

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE The Mystery of Machiavelli

01 Florence, the City That Bloomed People — Renaissance and Citizenship

02 Between the Monarchy and the Republic — Lessons from Real Politics

03 What Makes a Strong Country — Read “The Roman Statute”

04 Masterpiece of Desperation — Knowing the Prince’s Theory right away

05 What is politics and where does power come from — wisdom ahead of its time

06 Love My Fatherland, More Than Souls — Machiavelli’s Legacy

EPILOGUE: A republican crush

Keyword for Machiavelli’s thoughts

the defining scene of Machiavelli’s life

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Machiavelli served as a member of the Second City Council and the Ten-member Committee of the city-state of Florence from 1498 to 1512. Before the unification of a unified state, his desire for a wealthy and powerful soldier was intact in his book “Theory of the Monarchy,” which he always wrote in a small country on the Italian peninsula concerned about foreign aggression.

Lorenzo de Medici was born in 1449 and succeeded his grandfather Cosimo, leading the Medici family to its heyday, which was called the great man. The Dnieper in Florence flourished as a support for cultural and artistic activities. Those who participated in the conspiracy on the side of the Pacific who hurt his younger brother were put up at the Signoria Palace or thrown into the Arnaud River. As a result, the Pacific revolts strengthened the Medici family’s rule in Florence. They focused on their family rather than their country, leading to their creation of a fragile country. Lorenzo, who died in 1492, is at the San Lauren Church.

Machiavelli devoted his monarchy to the Medici family to return to public service. He was not recognized when alive, and the monarchy was published after his death. The book was banned from the Vatican for anti-religious and anti-moral reasons.

Machiavelli was a political thinker who opened the door to modern politics. The background of the time when he lived was the city that blossomed during the Renaissance, showing a big difference from the Middle Ages in politics, culture, and economy. There are changes in humanism, values of freedom and equality, and civic consciousness.

He said that the core of the monarchy is not how much weapons and money the monarch has but the support and unity of the people, who are critical members of the state. To do so, he emphasized the monarch’s ability to behave wisely. The book, which contains frank and unpretentious content, was overshadowed by the stigma of being a book of demons at the time.