Machiavelli

Question 1

What are 2 of machiavelli’s book

Answer 1

The Princes

Discourses on Livy

Question 2

What did machiavelli serve for and when

Answer 2

When a republic was set up after the medici fled, From 1498, machiavelli served as a civil servant in this republic. In 1512 the rebuplic failed and machiavelli was imprisoned for a time.

Question 3

What are a few things he wrote in The Prince

Answer 3

• dont make yourself hated, its better to the feard than loved (chapter 17)
• reward people who make the city better (chapter 21)
• if you have to harm, do it quickly (chapter 8)
• dont keep your promises, know when to act like a beats and a man (chapter 18)
• dont change your mind (chapter 19)
• the only type of knowledge needed is war and its methods and pracitces (chapter 14)
• dont be generous, only just a little (chapter 16)

Question 4

What is something he put on Discourses of Livy

Answer 4

All men are wicked, they will be vicious when they get the chance (chapter 3)