HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The French would restore political order in Italy.
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The pope would actively promote a worldly order of Christians.
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An Italian ruler would emerge from the Medici family of Florence.
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The Spanish would remove the French from Italy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince as a gift to the new prince of Florence, Lorenzo de Medici, around the year 1513, but the book was not published and distributed until after Machiavelli’s death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the book is Machiavelli’s advice to the current ruler of Florence on how to stay in power. It was also his effort, though unsuccessful, to gain an advisory post in the Medici government. The Prince was not published until five years after Machiavelli’s death.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Medici accused Machiavelli of conspiring against the new regime, thus against the Medici Family, and he was thrown into jail to then be sentenced to a life of exiled in San Casciano (South of Florence) with his wife, Marietta Corsini, and his family.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the meantime, he was commissioned by the Medici pope Leo X (reigned 1513–21) to write a discourse on the organization of the government of Florence.