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Niccolò Machiavelli

Died in 1527

Niccolò Machiavelli, in Italian Niccolò Machiavelli, was born in Florence on 3 May 1469. Having entered the chancery of the Florentine republic in 1498, he served as its secretary and undertook many diplomatic missions. Dismissed in 1512 when the Medici returned, imprisoned and tortured in 1513, he withdrew to his country estate, where he wrote treatises and comedies. In 1520 the Medici commissioned from him a history of Florence. He died in Florence on 21 June 1527.

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