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Machiavelli's Works
Around Machiavellis time the papacy held much of the European power. Many popes held notoriously corrupt positions and mismanaged the entirety of Western Europe. They were the dictators during the Italian Renaissance. Not just religiously, but politically, militarily, and socially. They taxed and sent off leagues of soldiers to kill all people and to command all land of differing religious or political association ....
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.... Giovanni de Medici as advice on how to rule and conquer peoples. Unfortunately his political and social genius was not realized for years to come and all he had worked for had gone down the drain. Italy fell leaving only the memory of what once was. Why Machiavelli was compelled to give a book of advice to his companion in the papacy was that he had seen many rulers attempt to expand their powers and fail. With popes constantly sending warriors off on crusades ....
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