Part one of term paper
Niccolo` Machiavelli was an Italian born in Florence in 1469, growing up in the ‘golden age’, during the rule of Lorenzo. His father was a Florentine lawyer, coming from a family with old fashioned values and middle class stature. In 1498, at the age of thirty, Machiavelli was appointed secretary and Second Chancellor to the Florentine ...

Part two of term paper
... was passed for a committee called the Nine of the Militia, in which Machiavelli was chancellor. In 1512, fighting against Pisa, Machiavelli’s troops did not differentiate themselves from the Spanish and where defeated. He held office for fourteen years until the return of the Medici in 1512. Continuing to follow political affairs, denied participation in them, Machiavelli began to write on paper his displeasure and advice he longed to give politicians. In November of 1512 his actions where r ...