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Nicolo Machiavelli May 3, 1469-May 22, 1527
Nicolo wrote the book "The Prince". He thought outside of the box when it came to politics.
"Virtue will take arms against fury."
Raised in a Noble family in Florence Italy. His parents, Bernardo and Bartolomea had one other boy and two girls. Nicolo's education started when he was seven and grew up to be a banker in Florence. His love for politics and reading gave him the job of Chancellor of the Florentine Republic in 1498. fourteen years later he was dissmissed from work and arrested for scheming against the Medici family.
Nicolo was tortured in prison for plotting against Medici.
Background
Princes against the flow
Nicolo was a strong liberal. He supported government over religion. ''The Prince'' was his view of how the government should be run; a guide for princes to maintain their throne. Many people took this offensive because Machiavelli was not scared about going against the normal, narrow-minded ways of thinking. Nicolo thought of polictics as separate from ethics and therefore his methods as ruling were more harsh than princes who were more polite. Because ''The Prince'' was so different, his books were on the Index of Forbiden Books in the Catholic Church.
Machiavelli gathered a malitia for the city of Florence in 1510, two years before he was arrested.
