POLS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Girolamo Savonarola, Barack Obama
13 Apr 2014
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Machiavelli, the prince: the first modern political philosopher who separates himself from the thoughts of the ancients. Topics to be covered: letter to vettori (december 10, 1513, dedicatory pref, variety of other chapters. He held a very high ranking political position. 1494-1498 a dominican friar holds power named savonarola. 1498-1512 florence now becomes a republic under soderini. This is important because under this republic machiavelli holds office: after this the medici return, and machiavelli is no longer in power. His name shows up on a list of popular conspirators who plan to kill medici, and he is therefore imprisoned, tortured and eventually sent to exile. From 1513 on he writes his written works, the prince, the discourses and the art of. War: the prince is a manual on how to rule. He writes it in exile because being away from office pains him and he wants to return.
