His experience showed him that politics have always been played with deception, treachery and crime. Machiavelli considered political battles, not through a lens of morality, but as though they are a board game with established rules. Machiavelli's name came to evoke unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli advised most famously in The Prince. He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. His personal correspondence is of high importance to historians and scholars. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy or political science. Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( - 21 June 1527) was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prince (Il Principe), written in 1513.
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