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Machiavelli Niccol? . 1469--1527, Florentine statesman and political philosopher; secretary to the war council of the Florentine republic (1498--1512). His most famous work is Il Principe (The Prince, 1532)
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NICCOLO Machiavelli taught that "a prince ought to take care never to make an alliance with one more powerful than himself for the purpose of attacking others. During the early Renaissance Niccolo Machiavelli argued that the ends can justify often brutal means. In chapter 4 Granada shows convincingly how Bruno pursues the concept of religion as an instrument of politics, as can be found in Niccolo Machiavelli, to develop a justification of religious cults in whatever form they might appear. |
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