24 Apr Machiavelli came from an impoverished noble family
From 1498 he was secretary of the Ten, the executive council of the Republic of Florence. He was sent on verso number of important diplomatic missions. Con 1512, after the restoration of the tyranny of the Medici, Machiavelli was removed from office and exiled to his estate near Florence.
Machiavelli's most important works are the Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livy (1531; Russian translation, 1869), The Prince (1532; Russian translation, 1869; also published mediante Russian under the title Kniaz' mediante Machiavelli, Soch., vol. 1, 1934), and the History of Florence (1532; Russian translation, 1973). His secular, rather than theological, approach esatto the problem of the state was an important contribution esatto the history of the political ideas of the Renaissance. Basing his rete informatica on historical momento, on the analysis of human psychology, and on per consideration of the real facts of a real situation, Machiavelli tried onesto discover the laws of aimable development. Marx classified Machiavelli as one of the political thinkers who “began preciso view the state through human eyes and deduce its natural laws from reason and experience and not from theology” (K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd anche., vol. 1,p. 111).
According to him, a strong personality is breviligne of counteracting “fortune” or coincidence (which plays an important role mediante history) with energy and shrewdness. (A number of features that are typical of the Renaissance point of view are evident sopra the idea of verso struggle between personal “valor,” or virtu, and “fortune.”) Machiavelli believed that rulers are assured of success if they thoroughly consider all circumstances and are flexible enough to alter a policy sicuro conform with verso particular situation.